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Do one or more of the following:

1. In Page view, at the bottom of the document window, click Design .
2. Do one of the following:

   Apply a style to text

   1. Select the text or paragraph that you want to apply a style to.

   2. On the Formatting toolbar, in the Style box , click the built-in (built-in style: The formatting attributes that are available by default in the FrontPage style list.) or user-defined (user-defined style: A new style or a modification to a built-in style. User-defined styles always contain cascading style sheet formatting attributes.) character or paragraph style you want.

      Notes

      • Character styles (character style: A combination of any of the character-formatting options that are identified by a style name.) are shown in the Style box by a small, underlined letter a in front of the style name. Use character styles when you select part, but not all, of a paragraph.

        Only one built-in character style is installed with Microsoft FrontPage (shown in the Style box as Default Character Style and preceded by a small, underlined letter a). The Default Character Style removes formatting applied by user-defined character styles.

      • Paragraph styles (paragraph style: A combination of character- and paragraph-formatting characteristics that are named and stored as a set. You can select a paragraph and use the style to apply all of the formatting characteristics to the paragraph at one time.) are identified by a paragraph symbol (for built-in styles) or the absence of a character or symbol (for user-defined styles) in front of the style name.

   Apply a style to a page element

   1. Click the page element.

   2. On the Format menu, click Properties.

   3. Click the Style button.

   4. Do one of the following:

      • To apply a style from the embedded (embedded cascading style sheet: A cascading style sheet contained within the Web page to which it is applied.) cascading style sheet (CSS: A cascading style sheet is a document containing style information that can be referenced by multiple Web pages. Styles define appearance and formatting of content on Web pages and allow authors more control over how content is displayed in browsers.) (CSS) for the page, click the Class box, and then click a selection in the list of available class selectors (class selector: In cascading style sheets, a name identifying a user-defined style. Depending on how it's defined, a class selector can be used with a single type of tag or with any HTML tag inside the BODY element.).

      • To apply a style from an external (external cascading style sheet: A cascading style sheet in a file with a .css file name extension. A .css file is composed solely of style rules in valid .css syntax, without any surrounding HTML tags.) CSS, type the name of the style in the Class box.

      • To apply an ID selector (ID selector: In a cascading style sheet style definition (or style rule), a selector that is used to define a style for an individual page element, usually as an inline style.), type the name of the selector in the ID box.

      • To create an inline (inline cascading style sheet: A cascading style sheet that is applied to a single page element, or to a specified sequence of page elements.) CSS, click Format, and then click Font, Paragraph, Border, Numbering, or Position to specify the formatting characteristics.

      Note  If the dialog box does not have a Style button, you can apply a style to a page element by using the Style box. To do so, on the Formatting toolbar, click the Style box and then click the built-in (built-in style: The formatting attributes that are available by default in the FrontPage style list.) or user-defined (user-defined style: A new style or a modification to a built-in style. User-defined styles always contain cascading style sheet formatting attributes.) style you want to apply.