This is an annoying peculiarity of table styles. Perhaps you would have
better luck using highlighting or comments or Track Changes?

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"Sverre Medalen" wrote in message
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Stefan,

Thanks for your quick replay.

I did some more tests. This time I paid more attention to which style the
Character style was applied to. My experience was the following:
- When Character style is applied to a Paragraph style type, removing the
Character style made the text go back to the initial formatting of the
Paragraph style.
- When Character style is applied to text in a table (of the style Table
Grid),
removing the Character style made the text go back to its initial
colour,
but
the font-family changed to Arial (from Times New Roman) and text size
changed to 11pt (from 10pt).

Does this make more sence? Should I use another style than Table Grid
inside
tables to avoid this problem in tables?

Stefan Blom skrev:

Are you sure that the underlying paragraph style is correctly formatted?
If so, it should suffice to select the text and press Ctrl+SpaceBar to
reset its font formatting.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Sverre Medalen" wrote in message
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In my document I want to emphasize text for evaluation that other
persons
shall find easily. Thereafter I want to be able to easily remove the
emphasize so that the text regains its initial formatting.

To solve this, I've made a style of type Character and changed its
colour to
red. I marked som text (in Times New Roman, 10pt, black) with that
character
style. The text changed from black to red, while keeping the
font-family and
size of the Paragraph style, as expected.
Thereafter I deleted the Character style to see if the marked text
regained
its initial format. The text colour went back to black, but the
font-family
and size became Arial and 11pt respectively. How can I get Word to
give a
text marked with a Character style the style of its Paragraph style
when I
delete the Character style?

Regards,
Sverre