I use styles a lot in my documents, of both the paragraph and character
types. However the styles which are of type "character" have a nasty feature
about them - they strip away any previous formatting, and I can't figure out
a way to make them *add* to that already-existing formatting, rather than
*replace* it with their own formatting.

For example, just recently I had some text which included some variables
with subscripts (e.g. f0, with the 0 being subscripted to look like an index
for f). I also had a character-type style that was supposed to apply a
certain color. When I applied it to my text, it did indeed change the color,
however it also ruined all the existing formatting (i.e. it levelled all of
the subscripts).

It seems paragraph-type styles don't behave the same way (i.e. they don't
strip away existing formatting), however I would like to find a way for
character-type styles to also not do that. Can anyone help? Anticipated
thanks.

When you apply a character style it clears the direct formatting applied to
text; I don't think there is a way around that.

On the other hand, when you apply a paragraph style to a paragraph, any
direct formatting will be preserved if it is applied to less than 50% of the
text.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"wildetudor" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I use styles a lot in my documents, of both the paragraph and character
> types. However the styles which are of type "character" have a nasty
> feature
> about them - they strip away any previous formatting, and I can't figure
> out
> a way to make them *add* to that already-existing formatting, rather than
> *replace* it with their own formatting.
>
> For example, just recently I had some text which included some variables
> with subscripts (e.g. f0, with the 0 being subscripted to look like an
> index
> for f). I also had a character-type style that was supposed to apply a
> certain color. When I applied it to my text, it did indeed change the
> color,
> however it also ruined all the existing formatting (i.e. it levelled all
> of
> the subscripts).
>
> It seems paragraph-type styles don't behave the same way (i.e. they don't
> strip away existing formatting), however I would like to find a way for
> character-type styles to also not do that. Can anyone help? Anticipated
> thanks.

Answered in http://www.techsupportforum.com/micr...ffice-support/

When posting the same query in multiple forums, it's polite to say so.

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Cheers
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]


"wildetudor" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:87CD35F2-6C18-451B-8DB9-(E-Mail Removed)...
>I use styles a lot in my documents, of both the paragraph and character
> types. However the styles which are of type "character" have a nasty feature
> about them - they strip away any previous formatting, and I can't figure out
> a way to make them *add* to that already-existing formatting, rather than
> *replace* it with their own formatting.
>
> For example, just recently I had some text which included some variables
> with subscripts (e.g. f0, with the 0 being subscripted to look like an index
> for f). I also had a character-type style that was supposed to apply a
> certain color. When I applied it to my text, it did indeed change the color,
> however it also ruined all the existing formatting (i.e. it levelled all of
> the subscripts).
>
> It seems paragraph-type styles don't behave the same way (i.e. they don't
> strip away existing formatting), however I would like to find a way for
> character-type styles to also not do that. Can anyone help? Anticipated
> thanks.