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Sounds like the changes you made are really an override to the style but not
a change to the style itself.
To change the style itself:
1) Click in a paragraph that uses "Topic Text Bulleted". (Make sure that the
paragraph is entirely that style. Specifically, it shouldn't have individual
words or phrases that have different bolding/italic/font/etc. formatting
than the rest of the paragraph.)
2) Highlight this style name in the drop-down list of styles.
3) Press return.
4) This should result in another dialog box that says "Update style with
current definitions" or "Re-apply definitions." Choose update.
If you don't get this dialog box, change the entire paragraph to be
something else -- italics, bolding, etc. Then do 2-4 again. Then, get rid of
whatever you did and do 2-4 yet again.
If this still doesn't work, create your own "_bull" style with the
properties that you want. Then Search for "Topic Text Bulleted" style and
replace with "_bull".
Glenn Maxey
Voyant Technologies, Inc.
Tel. +1 303.223.5164
Fax. +1 303.223.5275
glenn -dot- maxey -at- voyanttech -dot- com
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> Subject: non-stick style
>
>
> I've already checked the archives. I'm having problems with a
> custom style in
> Word that will not "stick" when I close and re-open the doc.
> The style is
> called "Topic Text Bulleted." It is based on the "normal" text
> setting with a
> half inch indent and a quarter inch hanging indent from the
> bullet. It works
> great until I close the document. Once it's closed and then re-opened,
> everything is there except the half inch indent. I've never had
> a custom style
> do this to me before - what am I missing?
>
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