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Next to applying pre-define styles (paragraph- or character style), you cal select a portion of the text, an locally overrule the applied styles.
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Overruling
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Overruling (or overriding) a setting means that you replace the current applied settings with the new.
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Behind the scenes, the styling is split in 3 parts. There is the first part with Style 1, a second part with Style 2, and a third part (again) with Style 1.
The result
In the end, each character has 1 style to comply to.
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This means, that the middle part of tekst will be red, but will fall back to the default font and font-size.
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Overruling
How?
You can overrule Paragraph styles with both Character styles, and local overrides.
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