Microsoft KB Archive/21542

Styles Functionality in Word 3.x, 4.0, and 5.0

PSS ID Number: Q21542 Article last modified on 03-07-1997

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When you apply a style to a paragraph in Microsoft Word for the Macintosh version 3.x, the style’s formatting attributes are added to the paragraph without taking away the formatting properties already defined for that paragraph. This behavior causes styles to toggle some character formats.

For example, if you apply a style with a bold format to text that is already formatted as bold, the text does not appear as bold. If you then select the text and choose the Plain Text command from the Format menu, only the formats defined in the current style are still applied (and the text in this case appears bold).

This functionality changed in the Word version 4.0 release. In both Word versions 4.0 and 5.0, if you apply a style with bold formatting to any text, the text appears bold, regardless of whether or not it was already bold.

Furthermore, the Plain For Style command has the same effect as the Plain Text command in Word version 3.x. The Plain Text command in Word versions 4.0 and 5.0 strips all character formatting regardless of the style currently applied.

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