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displayed. You can use this dialog box to determine how such conflicts are
handled.
Working with conditional styles
Conditional styles let you automatically apply formatting to text based on the
content of that text. For example, consider the text-formatting conventions
shown in the following image:
Text that can be formatted with conditional styles
The conventions used here could be described like so:
Apply the Headline paragraph style sheet to the first paragraph. 1
Apply the Bold Body character style sheet to the first sentence of the second 2
paragraph.
Apply the Body paragraph style sheet until you get to the end of the story. 3
When you get to the end, turn around and apply the Byline character style 4
sheet backwards until you get to an em dash.
Each step is executed only after the previous step executes, and at the point 
in the text where the previous step leaves off. If any step fails, the rest of the
steps are not executed.
The Conditional Styles feature lets you capture such instructions and apply
them automatically to text. For example, you could implement the above
conventions with the following conditional style: