Annoying file formatting/style processing of Studio 2019

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Hi, 
 Would someone explain to me how come, time and time again, Studio chooses to attribute the secondary formatting to an entire segment while making the main formatting a manual tagging task? 
 Example: I have a segment entirely in the main formatting, say Times New Roman, 12 not bold, not underlined. In it, there are two words only (!) underlined and bold. Counter-intuitively, Studio processes the entire segment as bold underlined and makes me apply manual tagging to both sides of those two words. 
 Why? That is potentially such a source of error in the transformation to the target file, and that error has happened to me more than once... 
 Thanks!

Jerzy Czopik · Accepted Answer

Maybe learning a bit about styles would help? Most probably someone has defined an underlined style for the paragraph and then manually formatted the rest? In such cases working with WYSIWYG view is the worst option. To see WHY that happens switch to the "Show all tags, but do not show any formatting" view. Then you will see, where which formatting has been applied. 
 Should you by any chance understand German, register for this webinar to learn more about how formatting works: http://seminare.bdue.de/4476

Jerzy Czopik · Answer

Sorry, I do not really understand your bottom line. You are ALWAYS inserting tags, even if you do not see these. The WYSIWYG view just hides the formatting tags from your eyes, but this does not mean the tags do not exist. This is why I refuse to work with WYSIWYG - this would be only OK with perfectly formatted documents. Unfortunately, my experience shows, that about 95% of all Word documents are formatted that way, that using the tagged view makes my life easier.

In the mentioned webinar I will try to explain why this is so. Doing this via forum is far too complicated. But you can make a very simple test. Writhe this in your notepad and save as test.htm

This <b>word</b> is bolded.

When you open this very simple text in your web browser you will see:

This word is bolded.

In both cases you see the same file - in one case in tagged view, in other in WYSIWYG.

Shmuel Pfeifel · Answer

Sorry, I do not speak German so the webinar is not an option. However I did understand that the tags are always in place and are presented differently in each setting and hence the way you handle then in the editor is visually different according to the selected setting. As you and Paul note, the choice of setting, how to work, is a matter of personal choice and I will have to find mine. 
 My question was initially prompted by my own disbelief that an author of a document in Word would complicate a style so much, when all he had to do was use the most simple, default, style and formatting available in Word, and I attributed this unnecessary complication to Studio instead of the original author. 
 Thanks again!

Paul Filkin · Answer

Shmuel Pfeifel 
 Shmuel Pfeifel said: (which looks completely plain) 
 Perhaps you are simply hiding tags that are actually there? Maybe this is a little basic but there may be some important things you're omitting: 
 https://multifarious.filkin.com/2012/09/10/working_with_tags/

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