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Title or subtitle

It is an extremely rare instance that you will use the style "Title" or "Subtitle" found in the Styles Gallery, Pane, or Pulldown. If you have questions, please reach out to accessibility@swarthmore.edu.

Change the text to or from a heading or normal text

  1. On your computer, open a document in Google Docs.
  2. Select the text you want to change.
  3. Click Format and then Paragraph styles.
  4. Click a text style:
    • Normal text
    • Heading 1-6

  5. Click Apply ‘text style.'

Use a custom text style

  1. On your computer, open a document in Google Docs.
  2. Add some text and style it the way you want using the options found in the top toolbar
    Google docs text format options can be found in the toolbar

  3. Select that text.
  4. Click Format and then Paragraph styles and then Choose either Normal text or Heading 1-6 and then Update to match
    Illustration of steps to creating custom styles

  5. All of the text in your document of that text type, such as "Heading 4" or "Normal text," will be updated to match your new style.

Set and change a default style

On your computer, open a document in Google Docs.

  • Set a default style: Click Format and then Paragraph styles and then Options and then Save as my default styles
    Steps for setting default style

  • Apply a default style: Click Format and then Paragraph styles and then Options and then Use my default styles.
  • Restore original to the Google style: Click Format and then Paragraph styles and then Options and then Reset styles.
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