Question regarding differences among styles

[bigsnowdog]

I am working in the Office X, dated 2001, for Mac. Don't laugh, please. :-)

I am trying to design a template in which to create a technical document. Most of my work has been in Adobe Framemaker. I am trying to simulate, at least to some degree, a template I developed in Framemaker.

Telling you more than you want to know, I am unemployed just now and completing what is termed a written interview phase for a position. I want to format it in a certain way.

If I go to modify or create a style, it shows me a style description; font, kerning, keep with next, that sort of thing. I can't see how to change those variables in the style. How can I do that?

I want to build a template where headers extend farther left than body text, with different header levels varying distances from the inside margin. Body text would be a narrower column than headers, and all body text would be the same style, except for possible subtext blocks associated with sublists.

Do I do that by creating different styles, specifying margins for each style, or are tab dimension used for that instead?

Are margins global, and therefore applying to all styles, or can individual styles each have unique margins?