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Linked Paragraph, Character?

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2016-08-15T23:17:03+00:00

What exactly is a linked style and what does it do for me?  What is the difference between character and paragraph linked?

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  1. Jay Freedman 207.7K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2016-08-16T00:26:44+00:00

    If you select any piece of text, as little as a single character, or just click and leave the cursor between characters, and you apply a paragraph style (not linked), the formatting (both character and paragraph) of that style is applied to the entire paragraph. For an example, apply the Block Text style to a single character or word.

    If you select any piece of text less than an entire paragraph and apply a linked style, only the character formatting of the style will be applied to the selected text (behaving like a character style), and the rest of the paragraph will remain unaffected. The paragraph formatting of the style will not be applied. However, if you select the entire paragraph and apply the same style, all of its formatting (both character and paragraph) will be applied. For an example of this, apply the Intense Quote style to a single word, and then to an entire paragraph.

    A character style affects only the character formatting of the selected text. It contains no paragraph formatting.

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