Using CSS Styles is a great way to organize your text. You can create text styles and apply them easily to groups of text throughout your page without have to play with the html options each time. Lets create a style, go to Window > CSS Styles.

This will bring up a nw window, to start a new style click the "New CSS Rule" towards the bottom of the window.

We are going to make a text style, which falls under the "class" category. Choose class, and pick a name for your style. We are going to make this style for this document only.

This will bring up a new window. Under the "category" choose "type." This will give you quite a few text options. Edit them accordingly.

(If you want to, for example, create links on your page without underlines, you can apply "none" in the decoration option.)

Click ok, and you will see a few new lines of code were added in between your head tags. Now whenever you link a line of text to your style, it will refer here for the variables.

To link text to your style, simply select the text in dreamweaver, and in the properties window, click the style dropdown menu and choose the name of your style.

Your text will assume the variable you chose earlier!