[Bert Coules]

Suzanne,

Word will report a character style (when one is applied) rather than the
underlying paragraph style in the Style dropdown and task pane. Sometimes
a paragraph style can be applied to a paragraph or part of a paragraph as
a character style, and odd things can happen when this is done.

It does sound as though this, or something very similar, is what happened in
my case. Many thanks for the explanation; much appreciated.

Happily the Find style is something I'll never use again, so deleting it is
not a problem, though I'm still not used to Word's habit of apparently
saving styles along with the document, rather than separately. After many
years of WordPerfect, Word continues to baffle me...

Bert