Which Quick Style type is applied only to selected words or individual characters within a paragraph in MS Word 2010?
Character styles
In MS Word 2010, styles (Quick Styles) come in different types, and each type controls how much of a document it affects. The question asks for the type that applies only to selected words or individual characters within a paragraph — that is the Character style.
The main style types work as follows:
| Style type | What it applies to |
|---|---|
| Character | Only the selected characters/words; controls font, size, bold, italic, colour, etc. |
| Paragraph | The entire paragraph; includes character formatting plus alignment, indentation and line spacing |
| Linked | Behaves as a paragraph style if the whole paragraph is selected, or as a character style if only text is highlighted |
A Character style changes the look of the highlighted text alone and does not touch paragraph-level settings, so it is the correct answer.
Why the others do not fit: a Paragraph style always formats the whole paragraph, not just selected characters. A Linked style can act on characters, but only when text is selected — it is not exclusively a character-level type. Page styles do not exist in MS Word at all; that is a concept from LibreOffice/OpenOffice Writer, making it clearly incorrect.
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