smartform

i've created a smartstyle in which i've created only a paragraph format with font-family-DBGOTHIC, font-size-24 pt. and font-style-bold. then i've created a text node in a secondary window. i tried giving this smartstyle to the content written in the text node. but the problem is that i donot see any changes at all. wheras if i assign this same smartstyle to a text node under a table cell of the table node in the main window it works.