

If your selection is more than one character, and does not include the paragraph mark: 1) Word will instantly split the paragraph style in two and create a Linked Style with two halves.

If your selection includes the paragraph mark at theĮnd of the paragraph, you will get a paragraph style. If your selection is simply an insertion point ("no" selection) and you apply a paragraph style, you will get a paragraph style. What happens depends on the selection you had when you applied the style. When you apply a linked style, you are never very sure whether you have applied the whole thing, or just the Character style half of it. Any paragraph style can BECOME a linked style if it is used a certain way. If you change the font name in the paragraph style, it will also change in the character style of the same name. Microsoft considers it a feature, many others consider it a bug.Ī linked style is a composite style that contains a Character style and a Paragraph style linked together. It can also store the "Style for following paragraph" property that you are relying on here: a Character style cannot store or use that property. The three types in play here are "Character", "Paragraph", and "Linked".Īs its name implies, a Character style can store only font properties, such as the name of the font, bold or italic, etc.Ī Paragraph style can store all of the paragraph properties: such as space before and after, line height, etc. Since you know styles well, you will know that they can be of multiple types, and those types determine which properties they can contain. I am going to take a wild guess here that your issue has sprung from the Linked Style bug (sorry: "feature"). Rich is correct: the two products are almost unrelated.
#Ms word on mac does not properly format paragaphs for mac
Michaels Provides free AuthorTec add-ins for Mac & Win-Office. Once we've got those then maybe someone will be able to see what's causing the issue you are having. To correctly and the Modify Style dialog that shows the settings on that next paragraph. since we cannot see how you have setup these styles we need to see screen clips of the Modify Styles dialogs both for the Style that you say is not passing the "Style for the following paragraph" setting over Now to get down to business of your problem. Whose concepts and proclamations have never been based on reality.

They are different products, different Operating Systems controlling them, and though they may share some code, the name was determined by MS Marketing, Don't compare Office 2016 for the Mac to Office 2016 for the PC. Let's get the first thing out of the way.
