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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="#WS40D08668-FF81-4e64-90AE-2C5AE66277FCa"><h4 class="topictitle4">Apply a character style</h4>
</a></p></li><li><p><a href="#WS080E59E6-E791-4c55-97BC-1E5FFFDFA722a"><h4 class="topictitle4">Apply a paragraph style</h4>
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</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>By default, applying a paragraph
style won’t remove any existing character formatting or character
styles applied to part of a paragraph, although you have the option
of removing existing formatting when you apply a style. A plus sign&#160;(+)
appears next to the current paragraph style in the Styles panel
if the selected text uses a character or paragraph style and also
uses additional formatting that isn’t part of the applied style.
Such additional formatting is called an <dfn class="term">override</dfn>.</p>
<p>Character
styles remove or reset character attributes of existing text if
those attributes are defined by the style.</p>
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<div id="WS40D08668-FF81-4e64-90AE-2C5AE66277FCa" class="nochunk"><a name="WS40D08668-FF81-4e64-90AE-2C5AE66277FCa"></a><h3 class="topictitle3">Apply a character style</h3><div><ol><li><span>Select the characters to which you want
to apply the style.</span></li>
<li><span>Do one of the following:</span><ul><li><p>Click the character style name in the Character
Styles panel.</p>
</li>
<li><p>Select
the character style name from the drop-down list in the Control
panel.</p>
</li>
<li><p>Press the keyboard shortcut you assigned to the
style. (Make sure that Num Lock is on.)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
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<div id="WS080E59E6-E791-4c55-97BC-1E5FFFDFA722a" class="nochunk"><a name="WS080E59E6-E791-4c55-97BC-1E5FFFDFA722a"></a><h3 class="topictitle3">Apply a paragraph style</h3><div><ol><li><span>Click in a paragraph, or select all
or part of the paragraphs to which you want to apply the style.</span></li>
<li><span>Do one of the following:</span><ul><li><p>Click the paragraph style name in the Paragraph
Styles panel.</p>
</li>
<li><p>Select
the paragraph style name from the menu in the Control panel.</p>
</li>
<li><p>Press the keyboard shortcut you assigned to the
style. (Make sure that Num Lock is on.)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><span>If any unwanted formatting remains in the text, choose
Clear Overrides from the Paragraph Styles panel.</span></li>
</ol>
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<div id="WS4BFC888B-7A9E-40a9-B099-E06F3E3C8407a" class="nochunk"><a name="WS4BFC888B-7A9E-40a9-B099-E06F3E3C8407a"></a><h3 class="topictitle3">Apply sequential styles to multiple paragraphs</h3><div><div class="section"><p>The Next Style option specifies
which style will be automatically applied when you press Enter or
Return after applying a particular style. It also specifies which styles
will be applied when you select multiple paragraphs and apply a
style using the context menu. If you select multiple paragraphs
and apply a style that has a Next Style option, the style specified
as the next style will be applied to the second paragraph. If that
style has a Next Style option, the next style will be applied to
the third paragraph, and so on. </p>
<p>For example, suppose you
have three styles for formatting a newspaper column: Title, Byline,
and Body. Title uses Byline for Next Style, Byline uses Body for
Next Style, and Body uses [Same Style] for Next Style. If you select
an entire article, including the title, the author’s byline, and
the paragraphs in the article, and then apply the Title style using
the context menu, the article’s first paragraph will be formatted
with the Title style, the second paragraph will be formatted with
the Byline style, and all other paragraphs will be formatted with
the Body style.</p>
<div class="fignone"><img alt="" id="sy_02" src="images/sy_02.png" /><div class="figdesc">Before and after applying a style with Next Style.</div><br /></div></div>
<ol><li><span>Select the paragraphs to which you want to apply
the styles.</span></li>
<li><span>In the Paragraph Styles panel, right-click (Windows)
or Control-click (Mac&#160;OS) the parent style, and then choose
Apply <var class="varname">[Style Name]</var> Then Next Style. </span></li>
</ol>
<div class="section"><p>If the text includes formatting overrides or character
styles, the context menu also lets you remove overrides, character
styles, or both.</p>
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