Make your own Custom Title Styles in MS Word 2007

Posted on Aug 25, 2008

This tutorial will show you how to create a custom style for a Title in MS Word 2007. Sometimes after formatting a heading, you have to change the paragraph style back to Normal manually but you can get rid of this by creating custom Title styles and let the Word do the rest for you.

Here's how you can do this>>>

• Press Ctrl+N to create a new document and type anything say My Title
• Change the font size to say 20 points.
• Select My Title and Press Ctrl+B and Ctrl +E to make it bold and centre align.
• click on Home and click on Styles dialog button located in the bottom right corner of the Styles group

• Click on the New Style button given in the bottom left corner of the Task Pane(see above screenshot)
• Type My Title Style in the Name field.
• In the Style for following Paragraph drop-down list, choose Normal.
  
• At the bottom of this dialog box you can see two options : 1. Only in this Document 2.New Documents based on this Template. If you want to apply this Custom Title Style in the current document only then select the first option and if you want to have this Custom Title Style to be available in all the Documents you work with select option 2.
  

• Click on OK
• The My Title Style style should appear in your Task Pane. Now the next time when you type a title text, click My Title Style style in the Styles Task pane. Word automatically formats the title text for you. When you press Enter to begin typing the next paragraph, Word will automatically switch back to the Normal style. You can use the same procedure for creating custom headings that can save your precious time while defining styles and a lot of keystrokes.