Hi Anderlfs,

Paragraph Styles are useful when you want whole paragraphs to be formatted in a consistent manner. When you want to apply a particular attribute to, say, just a part of various paragraphs, you would use a Character Style. A Character Style allows you to override the underlying Paragraph's Style, and can be applied to different paragraphs regardless of their existing Styles.

So, if you create a Character Style named 'Color' and apply, say, a red font colouring to it, you can then simply select any block of text in the document, type ''Color' in the Style box and have the text's colour change to red. Later, if you decide it should have been pink, simply change the colouring in the 'Color' Style and all the text coloured red via the 'Color' Style will automatically become pink.

__________________
Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]