I wanted to maintain the formatting. On other documents these tags leave the
underlying format intact - on this one, it changes it to the default font.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Applying Default Paragraph Font removes all direct font formatting.

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"WordCrisis" wrote in message
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Print Layout view. Fonts appear as they should, until the supposed
"underlying style" tag is applied.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Could it be that users are in Normal view using "Draft font"?

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"WordCrisis" wrote in message
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Dear Helpful Persons,

I have been using a style certain style sheet on many documents. The
concept
has been that when the text is marked up, programs can subsequently
come
along and find the marked-up text and capture it. I have been using
character
styles that are set to the font of the underlying paragraph style +
changing
the font colour so that the people working on the documents can see
what
parts they have marked up.

I am now finding documents such that when these styles are applied,
they
seem to change the font to the default paragraph font for the
document,
and
all formatting information (bold, ital etc) is lost. It appears to
only
happen in certain documents as opposed to certaim machines so I am
thinking
it must be a document setting, but I can't think what it might be. Any
ideas?

TIA,
Tim