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In this module, we will take our formatting of text actually one step further and we'll apply a style and this will add several elements that you can get to from the formatting tool bar or from the text inspector. It will apply several elements at once, so it'll make your life applying formatting a lot easier. So to show you what I mean, let's go back to our initial document that we created here and just the chapter heading here. So word processing with Pages is what I've written. I've changed the font obviously and the color and I've used generally the format toolbar to make all these changes. Now, if I hit enter a couple times to set my next insertion point, notice that everything about the new text that I enter remains exactly the same and that's probably as you would expect. It is centered, it's this maroon-reddish color and it's using the same font that I had before I started pressing enter. Well, what if I just wanted to change it back to the normal text that's in this document? What if I created a new document that was a blank document here and I just started typing here, I would get text that looks like that. Well, how do I do that? Do I have to, are you telling me, and I'm not going to save the changes here, are you telling me that I have to then select this text and then find the right font that matches and all that stuff and then change the color back to the black color and so on? No, you don't. You can just apply a style and here's where this really comes in handy. To apply a style, you first need to view the styles drawer and you can do that by clicking on the view menu in your toolbar in the view button and click on this one; show styles drawer. Did I click it? I thought I did. There's also this button just underneath it, this blue circular button that looks like a paragraph which also will do the same thing. So yeah, it's visible right now. Now, it came out, yeah, it came out over there for some reason. It should have come out over here. So there it is and this is what the styles drawer looks like and now all I have to do is select text or just set an insertion point, depending on if I'm using a paragraph style or a character style and then apply the body text. Notice that this currently is body text but I've made some additional changes to it. You can see a highlight of that or see a visual cue of that with the red arrow. But let's select this and select body and now the text changes and it looks exactly like that. Let's undo this. Let's set the insertion point there and try the same click and because I'm using a paragraph style, it will change the entire paragraph to match the formatting that is included in the body style of this particular document. And different documents will have different kinds of styles that can be used. Now, I'll undo this once again. I could take these changes that I've made, again I've made these with the format toolbar, I could save these as a new style and I get this option if I just click on this little drop-down arrow right here. Get a lot of options. I can create a new paragraph style from the selection, redefine the style from the selection, so if I wanted to redefine this as body text, I could. I don't recommend that you use this very often because it's easier I think in terms of keeping things straight to just simply create a new paragraph style or a new character style or list style. So that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to create a new paragraph style from the selection and I'm just going to call it handwriting, something like that. And apply this new style on creation. You can do it if you have, wherever your insertion point is it would apply. But it doesn't have to be that way of course. And I'm going to click on ok. Now the handwriting style, it's going to be pretty self-evident what it's going to look like. I have it in my styles drawer so any time that I come into my document now and I start adding still more new text, just type that very quickly, oops. Let's do a period there. Let's say that it, again, it's body style but I'm typing along and I say, you know what? I want this to look like the handwriting style. Well, it's a paragraph style so all I have to do is set the insertion point somewhere in the paragraph and click on handwriting and bingo. It will be centered, it will be this handwriting Dakota font, it will be red, it will be 24-point font and so on. So that's how you would apply a style and how you would manage your styles. You can create, again, new styles from the selection or if I change the color to orange or brownish, I'll get all these choices back up once again. I could rename it if I wanted to. I could delete the style if I wanted to. So when you do, you'll have style to replace it. And replace and then there we go. So now that becomes the new, because I'm removing that style from the text, it goes back to whatever I chose to replace it with. So that's how styles work. That's your introduction to styles. We'll deal with styles more as we progress through this tutorial, but that again get's you started and you can see the use of styles, which is to apply lots of formatting with a single click.