I am trying make atomic variables stand out in the document, I thought they used to automatically change to a purple type colour.

So under Format, styles , I set the style to size 14, Bold, dark green.  The font changed on the existing ones but not the colour.

On new ones no setting occours just default text. I then restored to default settings under styles and they all turned purple including the new ones.

Then I made another one but no adoption of the default style (purple) occured. 

This fiddlyness needs to be improved  

Has anyone any suggestions to make the atomic variables adope their default colour etc?