Why is p2 default text style for text blocks in 7.1

Just curious, is there a SEO or other technical reason that a text box defaults to Paragraph 2 (P2) for text boxes instead of P1 (Paragraph 1)?

Is there a way to change it so that P1 is the standard? I've created my site off of this and have been frustrated that I have to keep changing it from P2 to P1. Next site I build I'll take care of this issue so that I set p2 as the standard but for this one I was hoping for an easy global setting fix... if there is one 

4 hours ago, Sjeanjaquet said:

I was hoping for an easy global setting fix... if there is one

There is none.

@creedon Thank you for responding. 

I wish that there were a way to keep the formatting from the previous paragraph instead of having to manually set it every time if you start a new paragraph and you don't want P2.

26 minutes ago, Janet-CA said:

I wish that there were a way to keep the formatting from the previous paragraph instead of having to manually set it every time if you start a new paragraph and you don't want P2.

Squarespace's UI choice on this is dumbfounding! I don't know what word processors their UI people grew up using. I've never used one that automatically changes the font on you when you start a new paragraph.

As a workaround you can type shift-return which will prevent the new paragraph and then at the end of editing go back and type return before each new paragraph.

@creedon "Dumbfounding." I couldn't agree more. Thanks for that workaround. That's a lifesaver. Or a sanity saver, more like.