I have a paragraphs in different text boxes that use the same format: a persons name sometimes  followed by a hyphen then a phrase and then followed by a colon and the rest of the paragraph (s') text.

The name and the – phrase (paragraph styles name:  name ) is one font and the text following the : is in another Paragraph style name  ( paragraph styles name: body text).

I have made some overrides at differnt times. At one time I set up a nested style for text boxes.

Now I have a new style of font/size that I want  to change the 2 different parts in the text box. 

I had trouble in changing the nested styles so I simply deleted it and substituted body text for the style. . I have updated the name and the body text paragraph style.

When I select the name info, and apply the ( name) paragraph, the entire text box shows up in the name style. When I only select the text after the :  and change it to the text paragraph style, the entire text name  and text  gets changed to the the paragraph style.

I  deleted the name text info,  copied the name info  into anotther text box, and applied the paragraph style -name to it. Then went back to the text box, selected the rest of the text, applied the text paragraph style. Then I added 3 spaces at the begining of the . Then I went back to the new text box with the applied name paragraph styleand copied/pasted the name info into the original text box. That worked. BUT

But if I want to change the paragraph style just the name for the whole document,it will not, and the change affects the entire  text boxes for the entire document.

What can i do to make the 2 different styles behave?How do I sepreste the text so the 2 styles can be applied tothe correct info?

thank you.

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yes This is correct.