Dreamweaver Help | Set text properties in the Property inspector

This question was posted in response to the following article: http://helpx.adobe.com/dreamweaver/using/set-text-properties-property-inspector.html

The note at the bottom of the first section (About formatting text (CSS versus HTML)) says -
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Please be aware that embedded CSS will ONLY override external CSS if the external CSS link is closer to the  tag than the embedded CSS (i.e., it comes earlier in the flow of the document).  If the embedded CSS comes first in the flow of the document, it will be overridden by the external CSS instead.

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