``CT_Styles``

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Schema Name, CT_Styles

Spec Name, Styles

Tag(s), w:styles

Namespace, wordprocessingml (wml.xsd)

Spec Section, 17.7.4.18

Analysis

Only styles with an explicit ``<w:style>`` definition affect the formatting

of paragraphs that are assigned that style.

Word includes behavior definitions (``<w:lsdException>`` elements) for the

"latent" styles that are built in to the Word client. These are present in a

new document created from install defaults.

Word does not add a formatting definition (``<w:style>`` element) for a

built-in style until it is used.

Once present in ``styles.xml``, Word does not remove a style element when it

is no longer used by any paragraphs. The definition of each of the styles

ever used in a document are accumulated in ``styles.xml``.

attributes

None.

child elements

name # type

docDefaults ? CT_DocDefaults

latentStyles ? CT_LatentStyles

style \* CT_TextParagraph

Spec text

This element specifies all of the style information stored in the

WordprocessingML document: style definitions as well as latent style

information.

Example: The Normal paragraph style in a word processing document can have

any number of formatting properties, e.g. font face = Times New Roman; font

size = 12pt; paragraph justification = left. All paragraphs which reference

this paragraph style would automatically inherit these properties.

Schema excerpt

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