17.7.4.18 styles

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. end example]

[Note: The W3C XML Schema definition of this element’s content model (CT_Styles) is located in A.1. end note]