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                    Override character and paragraph styles
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                <br clear="both" /><div id="minitoc"><div class="t"><div class="b"><div class="l"><div class="r"><div class="bl"><div class="br"><div class="tl"><div class="tr"><div><h3>Contents [<a href="#" onclick="return toggleMiniToc('minitoc-links', this);" class="hideLink">Hide</a>]</h3><ul id="minitoc-links"><li><p><a href="#WS2611E8AD-4E85-49ed-AE67-E2C2EE06B1F3a"><h4 class="topictitle4">Preserve or remove overrides when applying paragraph styles</h4>
</a></p></li><li><p><a href="#WS2D890BEC-A830-43fc-AF6F-5E6016CAB4EBa"><h4 class="topictitle4">Clear paragraph style overrides</h4>
</a></p></li><li><p><a href="#WS98D9A254-B4BB-46a8-83EA-352D0C1952CCa"><h4 class="topictitle4">Break the link between text and its style</h4>
</a></p></li></ul></div></div><br clear="both" /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br clear="both" /><div><div class="section"><p>When you apply a paragraph
style, character styles and other previous formatting remain intact.
After you apply a style, you can override any of its settings by
applying formatting that’s not part of the style. When formatting
that is not part of a style is applied to text with that style applied,
it is called an <dfn class="term">override</dfn>. When you select text with
an override, a plus sign&#160;(+) appears next to the style
name. In character styles, an override is displayed only if the
applied attribute is part of the style. For example, if a character
style only changes text color, applying a different font size to
the text does not appear as an override.</p>
<p>You can clear character
styles and formatting overrides when you apply a style. You can
also clear overrides from a paragraph to which a style has been
applied.</p>
<div class="tip"><img src="images/tip_help.png" />If a style has a plus sign&#160;(+)
next to it, hold the mouse pointer over the style to view a description
of the override attributes.</div></div>
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<div id="WS2611E8AD-4E85-49ed-AE67-E2C2EE06B1F3a" class="nochunk"><a name="WS2611E8AD-4E85-49ed-AE67-E2C2EE06B1F3a"></a><h3 class="topictitle3">Preserve or remove overrides when applying paragraph styles</h3><div><ul><li><span>To apply a paragraph style
and preserve character styles, but remove overrides, hold down Alt
(Windows) or Option (Mac&#160;OS) as you click the name of the
style in the Paragraph Styles panel.</span></li>
<li><span>To apply a paragraph style and remove both character
styles and overrides, hold down Alt+Shift (Windows) or Option+Shift
(Mac&#160;OS) as you click the name of the style in the Paragraph
Styles panel.</span></li>
</ul>
<div class="section"><div class="para"><div class="tip"><img src="images/tip_help.png" />Right-click (Windows) or Control-click
(Mac&#160;OS) the style in the Paragraph Styles panel, and then
choose an option from the context menu. You can then clear overrides,
character styles, or both while applying the style.</div></div>
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<div id="WS2D890BEC-A830-43fc-AF6F-5E6016CAB4EBa" class="nochunk"><a name="WS2D890BEC-A830-43fc-AF6F-5E6016CAB4EBa"></a><h3 class="topictitle3">Clear paragraph style overrides</h3><div><ol><li class="stepexpand"><span>Select the text containing the overrides.
You can even select multiple paragraphs with different styles.</span></li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>In the Paragraph Styles panel, do any of the following:</span><ul><li><p>To remove paragraph and character formatting,
click the Clear Overrides icon&#160;<img src="images/ClearOverrides.png" />, or
choose Clear Overrides from the Paragraph Styles panel.</p>
</li>
<li><p>To remove character overrides, but preserve paragraph
formatting overrides, hold down Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac&#160;OS)
as you click the Clear Overrides icon.</p>
</li>
<li><p>To remove paragraph-level overrides, but preserve
character-level overrides, in the Paragraph Styles panel, hold down
Shift+Ctrl (Windows) or Shift+Command (Mac&#160;OS) as you click
the Clear Overrides icon.</p>
</li>
</ul>
 <div class="note"><span class="notetitle">Note:  </span>When you clear overrides, paragraph-level overrides
are removed from the entire paragraph, even if only part of the
paragraph is selected. Character-level overrides are removed only
from the selection.</div>
<p>Clearing overrides does not remove
character style formatting. To remove character style formatting,
select the text containing the character style, and then click [None]
in the Character Styles panel.</p>
</li>
</ol>
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<div id="WS98D9A254-B4BB-46a8-83EA-352D0C1952CCa" class="nochunk"><a name="WS98D9A254-B4BB-46a8-83EA-352D0C1952CCa"></a><h3 class="topictitle3">Break the link between text and its style</h3><div><div class="section"><p>When you break the link between text
and its style, the text retains its current formatting. However,
future changes to that style will not be reflected in the text that
was separated from the style. </p>
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<ol><li><span>Select the text that is marked with the style
that you want to break from.</span></li>
<li><span>Choose Break Link To Style from the Styles panel menu.</span></li>
</ol>
<div class="section"><p>If no text is selected when you choose Break Link To
Style, any new text you type uses the same formatting as the selected
style, but no style is assigned to that text.</p>
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