Implicit formatting, which is formatting done by 'default,' is implemented through the use of styles. In general, there are two types of formatting in Word: implicit and explicit. Every time she highlights a section of text and then changes the font or margin alignment, Word changes the whole document into that new font or margin.īefore explaining how to fix this, it is necessary to do a bit of a review about how formatting is handled in Word. Emily has a concern about how she keeps losing document formatting.
