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Styles.Add method (Word)

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Creates a new user-defined style and adds it to the Styles collection.

Syntax

expression.Add (Name, Type)

expression Required. A variable that represents a Styles object.

Parameters

Name Required/Optional Data type Description
Name Required String The new style name.
Type Optional WdStyleType Can be one of the WdStyleType constants. The default is paragraph style.

Return value

Style

Example

The following example adds a new character style named "Introduction" and makes it 12-point Arial, with bold and italic formatting. The example then applies this new character style to the selection.

Set myStyle = ActiveDocument.Styles.Add(Name:="Introduction", _ 
 Type:=wdStyleTypeCharacter) 
With myStyle.Font 
 .Bold = True 
 .Italic = True 
 .Name = "Arial" 
 .Size = 12 
End With 
Selection.Range.Style = "Introduction"

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