I couldn't replicate the behavior he was talking about in Word for Mac 2011. Setting the style on a paragraph, regardless of how much text formatting you've do

I couldn't replicate the behavior he was talking about in Word for Mac 2011. Setting the style on a paragraph, regardless of how much text formatting you've done (I tried approx. 25%,50%, 75%, 90%+) doesn't touch any direct formatting. If you want to clear the direct formatting, and revert to the paragraph style, you have to manually "Clear formatting" from that Paragraph - which is exactly the behavior I would expect. The behavior he described is horrible, and I'm happy that it's not present in my version of Word. (Note, you can ask word to display the styles applied to paragraphs in the left side bar, and also ask it to highlight any place direct formatting has been applied. Very useful when doing style management).