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That will work on all other paragraphs in that style that have no direct formatting on it, except that one. Then you want to change the style to maybe change the margins or indent. Though it does make it difficult if, say, you have a paragraph in a particular style, and you put some phrase in bold. Thank you, that was precisely the problem, and, if I think about it long enough it kind of sort of makes sense. Is there something I’m doing or might have done to get this weird behavior? I thought the purpose of paragraph styles was to do exactly when I’m trying to do.

I have to Cancel out of the Paragraph Style dialog, and then Undo to get my original font back. Unfortunately, if I click “Reset” then “Apply” again, to get my previous font back, the changes do not appear. If I change the font, and click “Apply”, that does appear immediately in all paragraphs with the style I’m modifying. Some other notes: Most of the changes I’ve tried (that don’t appear when I make them and click “Apply” or “OK”) are in the “Indents & Spacing” tab, specifically the below paragraph value. It appears, according to my limited experimentation, that the modified style does not change the appearance of existing paragraphs with that style, just newly created paragraphs with that style or paragraphs whose style is changed to the modified style. The style is not linked with any others, and the next style is the same style.

If I create a paragraph where the paragraphs before and after are a different style, then the new paragraphs show the modified style. If I create a new paragraph with the modified style, the changes aren’t visible if I put the new paragraphs between two other paragraphs with the modified style. Interestingly, if I change the actual paragraph style of an existing paragraph to the paragraph style I’d previously modified, the modifications are apparent in the paragraph whose style was changed. If I change the values for a specific paragraph via Format->Paragraph, the changes are immediately visible. This even happens if I choose some ridiculous value (like indent 2") that I’d be certain to notice. When I go into the “Paragraph & Styles” window, and right click on an existing style, and choose modify, change some value(s) and click “Apply” (or “OK”), I don’t see any changes to my document.
