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Style sheets are essential tools used to define the layout of documents, ensuring a consistent presentation across various formats. By standardizing elements like font type, size, color, margins, and effects (italic, bold, underline), style sheets help in maintaining a uniform visual identity for business documents. While they offer advantages like preserving a house style and allowing multiple contributors without sacrificing coherence, they also have drawbacks, such as uniformity that may not suit target audiences and potential costs involved.
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Style Sheets • Similar to templates • Used to set out the layout of documents • Settings are stored in a style sheet and then applied to text in a document or on a web page (a bit like the master slide in Microsoft PowerPoint) • Ensures documents are produced to a certain layout • Could you think of an example?
Style sheets consist of: • Font type, size and colour • Margin and tabulation settings • Effects applied (italic, bold, underline) • Justification • Line spacing and margins • Borders • Background colour
Advantages • Business documents are produced to a consistent house style • Different people can work on the same document but consistency will remain
Disadvantages • All documents end up looking all the same • Cannot be tailored to target audience • Costs money
