Paragraph frames marked as fields retain their formatting with user input. E.g. if paragraph 1 is red and paragraph 2 is blue, they text entered by a user will be formatted red and blue as well.

The entire text frame in the example on the left is one input field. The user input on the right is matched to the styles on the left. This feature applies only to paragraph frames that are a single input field (no {brackets}).

Additional paragraphs attain the style of the last paragraph in the text frame. In this example it is bulleted. Para 7 is an additional paragraph and it attained bulleted style of paragraph 6.