Using Styles in Native Documents

With native documents, you have tremendous freedom regarding how you format and edit the content in the document. This can be both good and bad. You can edit the native document without limitations. However, if you introduce a new typeface or font size, increase the line spacing, and so on, the resulting web page looks different from the other web pages on the Web site.

Therefore, the designer of your site may have set up style names that are mapped to HTML tags when the document gets converted into a web page. (These mappings are actually stored in the Dynamic Converter template that is used to convert the document.)

Instead of manually formatting the content in your document, you would apply a style to it.

Styles Menu in Microsoft Word 2003

Description of Styles Menu in Microsoft Word 2003

For example, styles for "Title," "Body," and "Footer" may be mapped to corresponding tags in HTML or in a customized cascading style sheet. You must coordinate with your site designer or site manager to see whether such styles are in place and how you should be using them.