Thanks. Your suggestion to generate a small set of relevant Character Styles has been very helpful, avoids having to scroll through long list of fonts, etc., just to embolden or italicize selected words. Re the between-paragraph spacing issue that motivated my original question, my community newspaper (12 8.5x11 pages) articles are small/simple enough that, where fractional between-paragraph spacing is really needed, to make the changes in LibreOffice and re-import the ODT file. That's easy. Better, I'll try to avoid fractional spacings in favor of more uniformity/alignment across columns/pages. Now on to other challenges! Thanks!!