If you are like many people, you may be wondering what the purpose of the Word Styles Toolbar is. Likely, you are comfortable manually modifying your text using the Font and Paragraph sections of the Home Ribbon and are wondering what benefits changing your Word processing habits will bring.

Most people consider the following reasons the greatest incentives for transitioning to the Styles Toolbar:

• Saving Time - Once you learn how to use the Styles Toolbar you will save a significant amount of time creating and modifying documents.
• Enhanced Accessibility - Globally 1.3 million people have some sort of visual impairment, so making your document easy to use for screen readers is a must in this day and age! Luckily the Word does that automatically when you use the Styles Toolbar.
• Unlock Special Features - By using Word Styles to format your document, you can automatically create an accurate Table of Contents and easily navigate large documents using the Navigation Pane.
• Increased Consistency - This allows for you to change your formatting options in one place, and it automatically be applied to every relevant section of text.
• Establishing Templates - When you finally find that perfect formatting combination, you can save it as a template to reuse on future projects.
• Easy Creation of a Brand Toolkit - The most professional looking documents are those that are consistent with your brand and are consistent with the other documents your company creates. If you create a handful of templates using Word Styles, anyone from your company can quickly create documents that confirm to your brand formatting guidelines.