[Jay Freedman]

It occurs to me that IF you intend to add only new paragraphs (which
is not how people usually work), you could define the new style and
then modify the existing body text style to specify the new style as
the "Style for following paragraph". However, any changes made within
existing pragraphs would have the same color as the old text.

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On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 08:36:45 -0500, "Suzanne S. Barnhill"
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Because that would change all the existing Body Text as well.

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"Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message
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Why can't you simply assign the color to the paragraph style you're
using for the body text?

(Modify Format Font)

On Mar 21, 9:01 pm, MarcD wrote:
On a document that's already got section headings in black-colored
text--I'd
like all new text that I type anywhere on the page to be dark red.
Changing
the color in Font settings, or using the drop down on the toolbar, only
changes the color at the cursor position. As soon as the cursor is moved,
it's back to the Automatic color.

I don't really want to change Automatic, since I'll just have to change it
again for the next document I open. Is there a way to do this other than
having to frequently change the color of Automatic or mess with
third-party
macros?