Change a Paragraph Style to Character Style

[Techno]

I have no idea how, when or why it happened, but two Styles I use appear to have changed from being Character Styles to Paragraph Styles.

Is there any way to change this?

[MattyQ]

Can you give a quick example?

[Techno]

I'm not quite sure what you mean by examples, but will explain the purpose.

I'm illustrating the use of special Codes used within a program.

My main text font for paragraphs is Arial Univers MS.

However I have two character Styles which use Courier New. DBT Code (red) and DBT Text (black). Hence My text might read:

"With the use of the Heading Style Codes [hds] and [hde] your document would appear as:
[hds]Title of our document.[hde]"

What is happening is that if I highlight the [hde] for example and apply the DBT Code Style, the whole line changes to red.

This was all working OK.

[kwag_myers]

I've never heard of a Character Style (which only means I'd like to know more, but Google hasn't heard of them either). Is there a reason you're not using a span for this?

[MattyQ]

What is happening is that if I highlight the [hde] for example and apply the DBT Code Style, the whole line changes to red. This was all working OK.

I can't say for sure, but it sounds to me like you're expecting to apply a class (i.e. style) to a span, and instead the class is getting applied to the parent element, in this case, p (paragraph).

I just want to make sure we're on the same page -- I think by character style, you must mean the contextual change the Style menu/drop-down reflects when you highlight characters?
For example:

elementstyles.png

characterstyles.png

[Techno]

I've never heard of a Character Style (which only means I'd like to know more, but Google hasn't heard of them either). Is there a reason you're not using a span for this?

You must have a strange Google as a search for "Word character styles" brought up a claimed 8+ million results. One which explains things pretty well is here:
https://support.office.com/en-ie/articl ... bb6ede1ba4

I more than suspect that many of my problems are due to the different terminology between applications, as I'm so used to what Word calls things.

[Techno]

Hi MattyQ,

Many thanks for the explanation, though I will have to "translate" the terminology. Being a fairly skilled Word user, Flare is quite a transition.

[wclass]

I think it's a terminology thing. Word has paragraph and character styles, but HTML doesn't go by those names.
If you want to apply a style to a portion of text rather than a whole line, you need to use spans.
I'd use the internal text editor to have a look at your "DBT Code Style" style to see how it is set up. Did you create this style or rely on Flare to generate it from a Word import? Unexpected things can happen during an import. I'd check your CSS and look at the code behind the text you want to apply the styles to.