Chapter 3: Creating a consistent house style

Chapter 3: Creating a consistent house style

1. Master documents

   • Used within Word Processing Software
   • Styles to be defined that can then be used by a set of smaller documents that when joined together make the whole document.
     • Useful when producing large documents
   • Enables more than one person to work on a document at a time and then enable the sub-documents to be gathered together to form the full document with a consistent house style.
   • Enables elements to be defined:
     • Automatic table of contents
     • Headers and footers
     • Page Numbers
   • Works in outline view-showing references to each sub-document
   • Any changes made to the styles within the master document will be reflected in the sub-documents.

2. Styles

   • Used to create a house style by defining:
     • Font attributes
       • E.g. Colour, size, font, emphasis
     • Background colours
     • Borders
     • Alighnment
     • Paragraph spacing
   • Once a style has been set up it can be selected and applied to any text.
     • Any changes made to the style will be reflected throughout the whole document.

3. Style Sheets

   • Either written documents with instructions on what each style should be or they can be configuration documents that define the styles
     • E.g. Cascading style sheets (CSS) used to define styles throughout a website
       • Separate documents that can be linked to a website.
         • Only have to be set up once and are then applied consistently across the whole website. Any changes made to the style sheet will be made to all web pages.
   • SS with instructions help create a house style by making it clear to users exactly which fonts, colours and other attributes should be used for different types of text and documents.

4. Templates

   • Only used to create a new document
   • Any changes made to the master document will be reflected in all sub-documents.
   • Flexibility
     • Can define layouts as well as styles
     • USed tp create several new documents rather than one set of sub-documents
   • Can be used to create the following elements of a house style:
     • Layout of documents
       • Logos
       • Positioning of text
       • Page size and orientation
     • Colour schemes
     • Styles

5. Master Slides

   • Used within a presentation to setup the style and layout of the whole presentation
   • Used to create a house style by defining:
     • Background colours
     • Fonts, sizes and colours
     • Layout of each slide
   • Anything added to the master slide, such as images, will appear on every slide within a presentation
   • Any changes made to the master slide should change the whole presentation which will ensure that consistency is maintained.

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