When you click in the ¶ you want to change, make sure that your cursor is in
a word that does not have any special formatting (italics, bold, superscript,
etc.) applied. If your cursor IS in a word that has italics, for example,
and the style you wish to apply is not italicized, that one word will lose
its italics, but any other italicized words in the ¶ will stay italicized.

I hope this helps.

Fred
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"Charles Kenyon" wrote:

Try just clicking in the paragraph (in a word that doesn't have your
formatting) so that nothing is selected. Apply your style. Unless your
direct formatting controls most of the paragraph, it will stay in place.
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"friar John Mary" friar John wrote in
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In MS Word help file one can find this section called "Applying a style
turns
off bold, italic, or underlining." Is there something else that can be
done
besides what they suggest by formatting after applying the style (in my
documents, I need to preserve the formatting of the individual words and
only
apply a new look to the paragraph).

May God bless you in your help given!
friar John Mary