[longtalker]

I use styles a lot in my documents, of both the paragraph and character types. However the styles which are of type "character" have a nasty feature about them - they strip away any previous formatting, and I can't figure out a way to make them *add* to that already-existing formatting, rather than *replace* it with their own formatting. For example, just recently I had some text which included some variables with subscripts (e.g. f0, with the 0 being subscripted to look like an index for f). I also had a character-type style that was supposed to apply a certain color. When I applied it to my text, it did indeed change the color, however it also ruined all the existing formatting (i.e. it levelled all of the subscripts). It seems paragraph-type styles don't behave the same way (i.e. they don't strip away existing formatting), however I would like to find a way for character-type styles to also not do that. Can anyone help? Anticipated thanks.