If you're working on a document that uses the same text formats repeatedly, you can save time and ensure consistency by using style sheets. A style sheet is essentially a "macro" for formatting text. InDesign lets you create character-level style sheets and paragraph-level style sheets. Character style sheets let you apply several character attributes — such as font, size, leading, kerning, and tracking — to highlighted text at once. Similarly, you can use paragraph style sheets to apply several paragraph formats — alignment, indents, drop caps, space before or after, and so on — simultaneously to selected paragraphs. After you apply a style sheet to text, you can still manually modify the text by highlighting it and overriding the style sheet's formats. If you're importing a text file from Microsoft Word, you can import any applied style sheets along with the text.