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From: Mike_Dustan@ucs.sfu.ca (Mike Dustan)
Subject: Re: MS Word: Losing italics when changing styles
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Date: Mon, 15 Apr 91 18:31:46 GMT

In article <leo.671276498@galaxy> leo@duttnph.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart) 
writes:
> So I want to change styles to 'Reference', and this is where it all
> goes wrong: for a number of the 'Normal' paragraphs, MS Word will
> lose *all* font style information when changing the paragraph style
> to 'Reference'.

Another MS Word counterintuitive oddity... I've found that if I simply 
place the insertion point in a paragraph (single click, no text actually 
selected) and change the style, the entire paragraph changes to the 
plain-for-style character format for the new style; all character 
formatting is discarded. HOWEVER, if  I select one word, or even a single 
character, and apply the style, character formatting is retained.

Hope this helps!

Mike