You need to do two things:
The first is to turn off "Automatically update" in the Style, so that you
can make a change to the paragraph without affecting other paragraphs
formatted with the same style.
The second is to understand that by default there is only "one" bulleted or
numbered list in a document for each paragraph style. So if you have six
paragraphs:
1 para
2 para
3 para
Body text
Body text
4 para
5 para
6 para
All the "para" paragraphs above are the same numbered list. If you change
one, you change all.
You need to first apply a different style to the ones you want to change.
So:
1 Style First
2 Style First
3 Style First
Body text
Body text
4 Second Style
5 Second Style
6 Second Style
Word uses the styles to tell it that these two lists are independent of each
other. You can change one without changing the other.
To change styles, make sure that you use Format>Styles and
Formatting>...>Modify... . That way, you are changing the style definition
itself, not just the local paragraph. Which means that your change will
correctly flow through the document to all paragraphs using that style.
Cheers
I have a document I'm typing, and when I make changes to an existing bullet
or numbered line, it changes the previous bullets or numbered list.
I simply want to be able to change a line without it impacting the
formatting of ALL or ANY formatting before or after the line I'm trying to
modify.
HELP!!!
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