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Geoffrey Heard <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 6 May 2010 07:59:03 +1000
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>>Geoffrey Heard wrote:
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>>I use the list styles quite a lot. I've noticed and irritating 
>>little thing -- when you go from (say) "Headings" to "None" the 
>>margins arenot reset to zero. Rather they retain the Headings 
>>indent.
>>
>>Shifting from any List style should reset the margins to zero or 
>>normal for whatever style you go to.
>
>
>My solution is to never invoke List styles directly.  Instead, I 
>create for each List style a unique Paragraph style that includes 
>that List style.  To switch into or out of a list style, I choose 
>the appropriate Paragraph style rather than choosing the list style.

Right -- I do that for most of my stuff. But now and then I just want 
to insert a few bullets or numbers in some basically unstyled thing 
I'm doing and that's when I run into trouble.

cheeers, geoff

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