Create or modify a style for right-to-left text

Microsoft Office Word 2003

  • Create or modify the style as usual, but in the New Style or Modify Style dialog boxes, under Formatting, select the language type you want: (all scripts), Latin, or Complex.
  • ShowCreate a style

    1. If the Styles and Formatting task pane is not open, click Styles and Formatting Button image on the Formatting toolbar.
    2. In the Styles and Formatting task pane, click New Style.
    3. In the Name box, type a name for the style.
    4. In the Style box, click Paragraph, Character, Table, or List to specify the kind of style you are creating.
    5. Select the options that you want, or click Format to see more options.

    ShowTip

    If you want to use text that you've already formatted as the basis of a list style, paragraph style, or character style, select it, and then base the new style on the formatting and other properties applied to the selected text.

    ShowModify a style

    1. If the Styles and Formatting task pane is not open, click Styles and Formatting Button image on the Formatting toolbar.
    2. Right-click the style you want to modify, and then click Modify.
    3. Select any options you want.
    4. To see more options, click Format, and then click the attribute— such as Font or Numbering— you want to change.

      Click OK after you've changed each attribute, and then repeat for any additional attributes you want to change.

    ShowTip

    To use the modified style in new documents based on the same template, select the Add to template check box. Microsoft Word adds the modified style to the template that is attached to the active document.