Apple Pages '09 - Manual (Page 134)

Notice that one of the list styles is highlighted. This is the style that has been applied
to the selected text. (If the list styles are not visible, click the button at the bottom of
the Styles drawer.) The arrow to the right of the style name is red, indicating that you
have applied overrides to the style by modifying it.
6 Click the red arrow to the right of the selected style in the Styles drawer and choose
an option.
Redefine Style from Selection: Redefines the existing list style for the entire
document. If you choose this, your formatting changes will apply to all other instances
of this style throughout the document.
Create New List Style from Selection: This doesn’t alter the existing style, but creates
a new style based on your formatting choices. If you select this, type a name for the
new style, and then click OK.
Finding and Replacing Styles
Most of the time you change the style of text by selecting the text and applying
a different style. Usually you use the techniques described in “Applying Styles” on
page 125, but you can also change styles by using a find/replace or copy/paste
operation.
When you make changes to individual text attributes without selecting, replacing, or
pasting a new style, you have created a style override. For example, you create a style
override when you use the Font command in the Format menu to apply italics to a
paragraph of text formatted with the paragraph style named Body. The text remains
formatted in its original style (Body), but you have applied changes (italic) on top of
the default style attributes.
When you select text to which you have applied style overrides, the arrow next to the
style name in the Styles drawer is red. (The arrow next to a paragraph style name also
appears red if you have selected text with a character or list style applied.)
When the arrow next to a style
name is red, it means that you
have applied changes to this
style in the selected text.
Overrides can occur when you change the font, typeface, size, or color of text, or apply
the text formatting options in the Text submenu of the Format menu, in the Fonts
window, in the format bar, or in the Text inspector.
If you apply style overrides to some text and then change your mind, you can easily
return the text to the default attributes of the paragraph style.
To copy and paste a paragraph or character style:
1 Place the insertion point in a paragraph or word whose style you want to copy.
134 Chapter 6 Working with Styles