Link Character Style to Paragraph in CS5.5?

I have created a few different Character Styles in Indesign e.g. SM and I want all of the Character Style SM to link to it's definded abbreviation 'Site Manager' in the document.
Is it possible to link all of that Character Style throughought the document to that part of the document, or must I create all of them individually (monotonously)?

To anyone this may help in the near future:
To assign a Text Anchor, select what you want to be the destination (when you click on the link is where you end up): this case Principal Contractor (PC). Window > Interactive > Hyperlinks, click top right button.
New Hyperlink Destination, From drop-down menu select Text Anchor > Ok.
Congratulations you've now made your Text Anchor.
Setting up the Link:
Now we need to select the actual link itself.
Select whatever text you like;
Click top-right corner;
Insert Cross-Reference;
Under Text Anchor: you can select what you would like to link to. As you have already defined Principal Contractor as your destination link this will do nicely (and will be your only option selectable if you only did as above);
Under Cross-Reference Format > Drop - Down menu > Text Anchor Name: This is where you select what you wish it to be displayed as. You should create your own by clicking on the pen to the right > then the little + at bottom left corner.

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    Sub (if applicable): 15 bold center
    Body: 12 point
    I've gotten paragraph styles to work sort of. I tried setting up numbering and bulleting but it's been giving me so much grief that I typed those all by hand or have just adjusted existing ones (I don't have much time currently, BUT need to learn for future updates and to convert it to styles). I know styles are the way to go with a couple master pages involving bulleting and character styles... however I could not become an expert overnight unfortunately; i tried =)
    The real killer for paragraph styles have been:
    - The portions of the directions that pertain to specific menu options or clicks are in bold, occasional important info is red. Normal text including numbers/bullets are normal. There are many words repeated that need bold so perhaps some kind of search/replace script could help however im not positive.
    - When I go to apply a paragraph style it must make all type bold or not bold. It doesn't replace the color of the text which is good.
    -  Having major trouble with bullets/numbers working the way i'd like.

    It is unfortunate you only have two days, but you could play around with these suggestions below and see if they help more than they hender... (NOTE: SAVE A COPY OF THE DOCUMENT BEFORE YOU START MONKEYING AROUND IN CASE YOU HATE THE RESULTS!)
    For starters, you could certainly do the lists via stylesheet. It would require 3 lists based on your sample. Base list 2 and 3 on list 1 or all 3 on a default List paragraph style, so that you can globally control your list formatting without having to change all 3 each time you want to apply a tweak.
    List 1 would be leve 1, 1,2,3 style with indents like 3p, -1.5, 3p. Align right and don't restart numbers. If you want bold numbers, make a bold character style called List# and apply it.
    List 2 would be level 2, a,b,c style with indents like 4p, -1p, 4p. Restart on level change.
    List 3 would be level 3, i,ii,iii style with indents like 6.5p, -1.5p, 6.5p. Restart on level change.
    Tweak as necessary to match your actual text.
    Then just do a global GREP search and replace, replacing out the manual list numbers with real styles.
    List 1 replace ^\t[0-9]+\t with ~- (discretionary hyphen is a nice invisible character that won't break anything) and paragraph style of list1.
    List 2 replace ^\t\t[a-z].\t with ~- and paragraph style list2.
    List 3 replace ^\t\t\t[ivx].\t with ~- and paragraph style list3.
    The last step of list replacement would be to manually restart numbering for each new list.
    As for the keywords, unless you have a complete list of what will be bold and it will always be bold, just manually style them with character styles.
    Make a character style called "Keyword" and apply bold to the formatting.
    Make a character style called "Keyword Important" and apply bold and red formatting.
    If you know certain words are always, always the same and you have CS4, you could create a GREP style that applied Keyword character style to any words that matched.
    For example, if the keywords Left, Right, Top, Bottom always were bolded at the beginning of the paragraph, you could add the GREP style that applied Keyword to ^(Top|Bottom|Left|Right).
    In all likelihood you will be applying a lot of manual keywords too though, so make sure you put a keyboard shortcut on (like cmd-opt-1, 2, etc) on the Keyword and Keyword Important character styles. That way you can just fire through selecting text and whacking cmd-opt-1 where appropriate.

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