Inadvertent Direct Formatting

I have taught people for many years and one thing recently cropped up in terms of modification of styles so I just wanted to point this out.

I usually have the student operate with the left side tracking panel open under draft view and I have them open their right side styles panel in order to see "all available styles" to have at the ready for use.

1.  When they need to modify a style  I teach them the mantra "double click left or right click right".

2. Double click left means that they can modify a style listed in the style tracking by double clicking on it which opens up the dialog box where you then click on Modify..

3.  Right click right simply means that to modify a style that is listed in your styles panel, you find the style, right click on it and you get your dialog box where you click on modify.

What people do by accident (especially newer users) is when they are going to modify, they sometimes right click on the actual paragraph and go into "Paragraph" or "font" that appears on the listing that comes up when right clicking.

The problem being that the act of changing something from this location is not changing or modifying the style but instead is direct formatting and can become a bad habit.

The short mantra double click left or right click right helps to stop this habit and helps to keep the focus on modifying the style rather than a quick fix  by direct formatting.

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