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Office 2007 has a nice little feature that we all might use a little more if we knew it existed. 🙂

Quick Styles are preset, pre-configured font/paragraph/display settings. To experiment with the Quick Styles, open up a new email in Outlook. Click on the body of the message and then click the “Format Text” tab way up at the top. On the ribbon you’ll see a new group, called Styles. Click on the Quick Styles button to see a list of some “standard” styles you can choose from. You can even customize and make your own specific styles if you like.

In MS Word, it’s not quite as obvious. You need to use the Change Styles button and then you can pick Style Sets, Colors, and Fonts. When you find one that you like, you can even click the option to “Set as Default.”

Another nice thing that’s part of Office 2007 is that if you mouseover any of these options, your content changes to reflect how it will officially look if you click to make the change.

If you have any other suggestions or experiences with using the Quick Styles, please post a comment to share with the rest of us.
Thanks.
Scott