I also have (what I call styles - created as paragraph styles) which represent a few words with special formatting. For example those styles allow me to select several words and have them appear with different font characteristics. Example: "Now is the time" (an indexed font).

It may be my error but sometimes I forget to use the "few words" style and manually select the words and change the font (e.g. the indexed font).

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PROBLEM
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If I change the paragraph style (e.g. with the first line indent) to another first line indent style, sometimes, but not always, I loose the "few words" styles that resides in the paragraph indent style. That then caused me to have to redo everything within that paragraph.



Is there a better way to do this?

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