On top of the paragraph style, the entire paragraph or part of it may be applied a character style (character formatting). When talking about formatting of text in Word, you will often need to distinguish between formatting of entire paragraphs and formatting of characters.Īny paragraph in a Word document is applied a paragraph style (paragraph formatting). Read on for more details about how it works.

Microsoft has confirmed that it works that way 'by design'. 3 and 4 are based on the results I have found by testing.