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Did you change a character style and nothing happened in some places that were assigned this style? This happens because these sections of text were subsequently reformatted manually.

An example:

Let's assume that you define a style with the Arial font and apply it. If, for example, you now change the style's font to Times New Roman, all characters that are formatted in this style will change accordingly.

However: If you subsequently selected a completely different font for some of these characters via the command group Home | Character, the change to the character style no longer affects these characters. That is to say, manually applied character formatting takes precedence over styles.

If you want the affected characters to be "freed" from their manual formatting, choose the command Reset character formatting on the ribbon tab Home | group Contents | Delete. The characters now have the formatting specified in the character style again.