"WordCrisis" wrote:
Dear Helpful Persons,
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I have been using a style certain style sheet on many documents. The =
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has been that when the text is marked up, programs can subsequently =
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along and find the marked-up text and capture it. I have been using =
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styles that are set to the font of the underlying paragraph style + =
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the font colour so that the people working on the documents can see =
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parts they have marked up.
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I am now finding documents such that when these styles are applied, =
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seem to change the font to the default paragraph font for the =
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all formatting information (bold, ital etc) is lost. It appears to =
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happen in certain documents as opposed to certaim machines so I am =
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it must be a document setting, but I can't think what it might be. Any =
ideas?


Hi Tim,

I think that's standard behaviour with all character styles:
Applying any character style will remove any manual font formatting (all =
Word versions, on all machines).

And there isn't much you can do about it, at least not without quite a =
bit of work. You could write your own macro that remembers the manual =
font formatting (either all of it or special kinds such as italic and =
bold), applies the character style, and reapplies the manual font =
formatting.

Regards,
Klaus