Special Edition Using Microsoft® Office XP

Secrets of the Office Masters: Styles and Manually Applied Formatting

To understand the interplay between styles and manually applied formatting, consider the character highlighted in Figure 14.16. As discussed in this chapter's section, "Direct Formatting Versus Styles" a paragraph style was created called ChapterHeading and applied to the heading, "How Not to Run a Store."

Figure 14.16.

Consider what Word goes through to display the letter N properly. First, it picks up the paragraph formatting from the ChapterHeading paragraph style—flush left, page break with Auto space before, and so on. Second, it picks up formatting that's been applied ...