How to: Create a company style guide

 Nov 25, 2016

One of the most essential documents any business can have is a company style guide. Yet, not many do.

A style guide ensures that all internal or external communication is consistent in its look and feel. Brand consistency helps brand recognition, helping you stay top-of-mind amongst your customers.

In the following posts, Keith Ching, one of New Horizons' Office Applications experts, take us step-by-step through:

  • Style fundamentals in Microsoft Word
  • Heading styles
  • Modifying the formatting attributes of Word Styles
  • Creating new styles over a document
  • Managing Styles

For more information, take a look at New Horizons’ Microsoft Word Training Courses.


 Jul 04, 2020

Styles in Microsoft Word is a great way to format document text because it allows you to apply easily over selections and to ensure a consistent font theme. Styles is [...]


 Jul 11, 2020

Here is Part 2 of my "Working with Styles in Microsoft Word" blog series. As you have now applied styles over the document to ensure a consistent font theme which may [...]


 Aug 18, 2020

In part 3 of my Working with Styles series, we are going to look at modifying the formatting attributes of Word Styles. When you create a new document by default it’s in [...]


 Sep 08, 2020

Previously on Word Styles we looked at changing the Style attributes of the Normal Style and Heading Styles that would mean a company font theme can be applied to new [...]


 Oct 12, 2020

Previously on Word Styles we looked at creating new styles over a document that will create, in effect, a company style guide. Now the company has a complete style guide [...]


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