Can I create a "no style" style?

[Sesquipedalian Sam]

There's a little problem that I keep running into. I have my document
set up with the styles the way I want them, but there are a few places
that I just want some particular formatting just for that small piece
of text. I don't want to create a style just for that, sol I leave it
as Normal.

This is fine until I change the Normal style for some reason. Then all
of my custom formatting gets changed.

It just happened as I was trying to create a table of monospace fonts
for documenting some code snippets. I built a table with a row for
each font. After carefully assigning several monospace fonts to
several rows, I decided that I wanted to use TMR for the text, rather
than Calibri. So, I selected a paragraph, changed it to TMR, and
updated the Normal style to match. If course, all of my special fonts
turned into TMR.

Ctrl-Z saved the day, but I'd like to know if there is a way to assign
chunks of text to no style or something so this doesn't happen
anymore.

Thanks

 

[Pamelia Caswell via OfficeKB.com]

The way around the problem is to apply a paragraph or character style to the
"chunk".

Pam