Italicizing words within a paragraph

I am currently writing a paragraph which has been formatted using a paragraph style from the styles drawer. Within my paragraph I want to italicize just a few words, however it will not let me do this. When I highlight the words and click italicize nothing happens. When I look in the Format > Font menu, italicized has been ticked, however the word does not look italicized and nor is it when I print it. I've tried changing the paragraph style in styles drawer to see if this will make it work but it doesn't seem to make a difference.
Any advice? Italicizing some words is necessary for APA styled reports so its really important I work out how to do this...
Thanks for your help

The use of glyphs grabbed from other fonts is not a new feature.
It's done to give the user the illusion that he has a complete font.
The oddities may be seen very easily.
Sometimes they impact the real size of the chars and lines using only embedded chars have an height different of lines using borrowed ones.
The problem with super and subscript is the same.
If we want to have a correct result, it's good practice to use an application able to tell us which glyphs are available in the font which we plan to use.
I remember that one day I discovered that to get the full set of sub and superscript with a selected font, these ones where in fact grabbed in three fonts which explained the awful result.
It's always the same problem, so called 'Desktop Publishing' appliation give to Mr everybody the illusion than creating a document is a simple task.
I faught quite all the afternoon trying to help my ten years old grand son because one of his teacher gave him (in fact it gave it at the whole class) an exercice requiring the building of a page layout using the Fontwork tool in openOffice.
The content was of no importance. What was important was to use a lot of bells and whistles.
I was heavily provoked by this foolish requirement.
In French we call that 'mettre la charrue avant les boeufs'.
Teach them to use correctly the language. It will be time later to ask them to think to the pages layout.
Back to faux italics.
You may be right for the explanations of Apple choices.
As a guy highly concerned for professional reasons by intellectual property, I like to think that Apple took care of it.
When I was a children I hate thos breaking my toys. Please, don't break my dreams
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) dimanche 13 juin 2010 20:27:35

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