Styles are a group of formatting characteristics that are 'bundled' together. For example, if you would like your section headings to be Times New Roman, 18pt, and centered, you could create a style called 'Section Heading' and include these characteristics. Whenever a 'Section Heading' is required, you need only to select the style instead of the individual formatting characteristics. To find out more about using styles, visit our 'Writing with Style in MS Word' article.