I’m pasting plain text into documents and frequently I need to apply a character style (Italic) to certain words.
I use the Styles panel for this work.
80% (-ish) of the times the style is applied correctly, but in 1 out of 5 cases something goes wrong: According to the style info panels, the style is applied, but the formatting isn’t applied to the selected words.
The workaround is to Remove Style, then re-apply the character style.
The problem seems to be this:
Having applied a character style via the Styles Panel, the style selection seems to “stick around”.
I.e. when I select another set of words, the previously used style is still highlighted in the panel, and can’t be used.
When this happens, one must either click Remove Style or select another style before assigning the desired one.