Scott Meyers wrote:
The problem is that the only way (I know of) to "change the style back again" is to edit the XML file describing the style. As has been discussed here already, OO has no mechanism within the program to "remove" characteristics from a character style. Once you've added a color, for example, you can never get rid of the fact that your style specifies a color. You can change the color to whatever you want, but if the purpose of the original character style was to, say, italicize something without affecting any other characteristic of the text, adding a color to the style is in contradiction to the purpose of the style.
My technique depends on the fact that, at least for me, this normally doesn’t matter. I can normally change a style to red color from automatic color, and then change it back to automatic, without it making a practical difference because I normally don’t use color in my documents. (Now if I were to change the color of its linked-with style to “green”, that would create a difficulty, as the style wouldn't flow through to any lower style that was linked to it.)
You would creating very unusual documents if there is no searchable feature that you know you would never use in your text (such as “blinking” perhaps?) All you need is one searchable feature that you won't use otherwise than for searching styles.
What's needed is a way to search for character styles as it is now possible to search for paragraph styles. It's unfortunate that this feature is not present.
I totally agree. That would be the “right” way to do it. But until that is provided, I will continue to do what works for me, and I think would work for you, if you choose a feature which you won’t otherwise use in your document.
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