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If you are using Word 2007, press Ctrl+F.

Using the character styles instead of explicit formatting removes the problem, as applying paragraph styles doesn't undo anything formatted using character styles.įor those instances when I didn't want to deal with character styles, but instead wanted to retain the explicit formatting, I came up with the following general steps:

One way is to create character styles that can be used for italic, bold, bold italic, etc.

This led me to search for a way to preserve any italics within the paragraphs. Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't this probably has something to do with the way the documents were put together and over which I have no control. When I click in a paragraph and apply a paragraph style, Word is not supposed to wipe out any explicit character formatting in the paragraph, such as italics. I often get documents that have a hodgepodge of styles and I need to format them in addition to editing them.