How do I create a style that changes only the color???

[wornways]

I have been attempting to create a style that will change only the text color and nothing else. However, whenever I apply it, the font size always reverts to 12 points. I can't understand why something so simple would be so impossible. In Open Office doing the same is so easy it's almost laughable. You just base the new character style on the font currently being used and change only the color, and *poof*, done. Works perfectly. Not in Word. Oh no no. Not in Word. That would be just toooooo much to ask.



Here's the style:



So, what am I doing wrong?