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Subject:Re: I know why Word is a four letter word From:John Allred <john2 -at- allrednet -dot- com> To:John Posada <jposada99 -at- gmail -dot- com> Date:Wed, 20 Nov 2019 12:32:30 -0600
Your styles are linked by default. Where your styles say âBased on...â set that to â(no style)â Then, when you make a change to one, the others are not affected. Thereâs a similar setting for character styles.
John Allred
> On Nov 20, 2019, at 11:58 AM, John Posada <jposada99 -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
>
> ïHi, guys...after being an FM user for more than 5 years, I feel I'm having
> to learn Word (v2016) all over again.
>
> For the last 3 days, I've been wrestling with styles. In effect, my issue
> is, when I define a style, I want it to stay defined exactly how I defined
> it. I don't want to have it indent on me, If I define a bullet with a .25
> indent, I want it to STAY indented .25 and not change on me. If I make a
> line a bullet, I don't want the whole F'ing document to turn bullet.
>
> I WISH I could make this place an FM shop, but there is just too much
> document collaboration needed here and even I can't see the overall
> advantage.
>
> Thanks guys.
>
> --
> John Posada
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