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About Base Styles

The Styles pane (View tab|Styles) displays root-level styles, and nested sub-styles, which can inherit properties from their base style and override specific properties.

For example

If you need to create a style with the same formatting settings as the Normal style, but with a different color, you can add a new style and select Normal as the base style for it. Then you can specify the needed color for the new style.

Now if you change the font name or size of the Normal style, its sub-style will also use these new font settings since it inherits these values from its base style. However, if you change the font color of the Normal style, its sub-style will not change its own color since it overrides this value.