In Design - Paragraph Styles

[jasperdog]

I am having a problem creating style sheets. I have created a two-page, three column brochure. Not a big document and I don't really need the style sheets but I want to save it as a PDF and post it on-line with Bookmarks and Hyperlinks. So, I went back to create style sheets for my Title, Headings and emphasis points. When I try to turn the Headings (which I have applied numbering to) into a Style, In Design insists on applying that new style to the whole column of text.

I have no idea what I am doing wrong.:(

I imported the text from a single Word document and flowed the text from column to column. When I apply the style, the larger font and color gets applied to the whole first column, even though I only have the heading selected. I have tried removing existing character and paragraph styles (A folder of Word Character styles was imported with the text - I deleted this thinking it might be causing the problem).

Please, if anyone can enlighten me as to what I am doing wrong, I would really appreciate it.

Thanks,
elizabeth

[garricks]

Check the paragraph returns...make sure they aren't soft returns (shift-return). Also make sure the character styles are set to "none." Hope that helps! :)

[Ben Kessler]

Check this out:

http://learning.graphics.com/eLearning/Video/37734

[urstwile]

I was going to say soft returns were a possible culprit as well.

[Pointyhat]

You imported the text from Word and imported the styles sheets that were embedded. I can tell, your calling them Title, Heading, Bookmarks & Hyperlinks. Those are the default style sheet headings in Word.
Your fighting those style sheets as you try to create your own. Import the msW.doc as txt.
Name your own stylesheets!