Saving a Style Set in Word

Learn how to save a style that can work between documents.

I have been working on a series of documents that require special formatting for our university.  Sometimes I work on a Mac and sometimes I work on a PC, and it frustrates me to open up the documents and not have the styles I created available.

Create a style in Word

If you don't know how to create a style, you are a step behind these instructions.  You need to at least format some text and save it as a style.  This is on the home tab, Styles.

Save Style as a Set

My problem is that I was only using styles from the HOME tab.  I needed to go to the design tab and choose "Save as New Style Set".  This prompted the template window. Now there is a file that can be shared between computers and opened to apply to other documents.