A named character property exception that can be associated with any number of runs of text in a Word document's text stream. When a run of text is tagged with a particular character style, a chpx recorded for the character style is applied to the character properties that are defined for the paragraph style of the paragraph that contains the text. This means that the character style can change one or more of the character property field settings specified by the paragraph style of a paragraph to a particular setting without changing the value of any other field.