Question: I am trying to create a new style in Word, say 'My style'. But when I bold, italize or underline a word or sentence in that style, it appears as a new style 'My style (with para space) + Bold'. Is there any way to include them as part of a style so that it appears as 'My style' itself even if we bold or italize a word in that style.

![Screenshot](https://i.stack.imgur.com/wMgf2.png)

Answer: 
I figured it. In style pane options, unchecking 'Select formatting to show as styles' will stop every formatting changes being made to come up as a new style. 

![Screenshot can be viewed here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/sMBaK.png)
There are two options for this. The quickest and, I feel, messiest is to highlight the text in Word and rightclick on the style and select "Update style to match selection". This will update all the text using that format.

Alternatively you can create a new style.

1. Click the little expansion arrow on the styles box.

[![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/LXFZm.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/LXFZm.png)

2. Click Add New Style

[![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/mmc15.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/mmc15.png)

3. Choose the style you want to base your new style off and click OK
4. In the popup dialog box, click the **bold** icon then click OK

[![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Tvx85.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Tvx85.png)