[Solved] Apply Style is intermittently working...

[mechanized82]

What would cause an applied style to only work sometimes?

I have a document that was never formatted correctly from the start. I'm learning as I go so perhaps some of my text has some certain option selected while other text doesn't.

Details: I can be on the same page, same document, select some text, apply custom style and it works. Then I'll choose a different bit of text, apply same custom style, doesn't work... sometimes the changes are weird, like it will add the chosen font in the style, but not size or color. Sometimes Its wont change at all.

It depends on the text selected... I could choose some text and it does 1 thing, another bit of text and it works properly, and a 3rd bit and it will do nothing... Saving and reloading has no effect.

I'm able to fix this by copying a section of the document that is behaving correctly and just pasting then retyping the words. But I'm just wondering if there is a simple solution and what caused it in the first place so I can avoid in the future.

[Hagar Delest]

The first reason that comes to my mind is direct formatting (formatting applied with the toolbar buttons).
Select the text, hit Ctrl+M and see what happens.

Note that AOO has a less consistent way of working IMHO, compared to LibreOffice: AOO removes character styles, whereas LibreOffice (correctly) keeps those character styles.
I can't explain why AOO would consider a character style a direct formatting to be removed.

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[mechanized82]

That was it. Thank you. What does ctrl+m do?

It was weird too cuz if I highlight the text not changing properly, the highlight bluish color would be the proper size but not the actual text lol.

[Villeroy]

menu:Format>Default [Ctrl+M] removes all hard formatting. What remains is the formatting of the underlying style.
This does not apply to page styles because all page attributes are set by a style. When you change a page format, you always change the style.