If you're using a recent version of Word, make sure that when you apply the
style to the paragraph you either have the selection collapsed to a point
(that is, you just click in the paragraph without selecting anything) or you
have the entire paragraph selected. Otherwise Word applies your paragraph
style to selected text as character formatting.

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"Kate" wrote in message
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Brand new document, cleared all formatting, created two different styles,
did
not save to template.

Applied style 1 to paragraph 1, applied style 2 to paragraph 2. Worked
fine.
Ditto to the following 2 paragraphs.

Then when I apply style 1 to paragraph 5, it's wrong, even when I (with
the
paragraph highlighted) look in Formatting:Paragraph, or Styles, and it
indicates the correct parameters. What the frell?? I have now spent hours
on
one stupid, short, simple document.

I am --- or thought I was --- a seasoned Word user. I use Quark,
Illustrator, TeX, XML. This is ridiculous.