It is actually quite hard for me to imagine a word-processing was designed for the styles to function the way they do. I spend more time constantly reformatting documents all day long for a variety of reasons. Most of these problems could easily be resolved by having the ability to reveal and edit codes but MS technical support says that feature does not exist.

I have posed my questions to tech support and am aware they are not the "power users" of these products. I am told there are no works arounds. These are the ways I most often find myself having to reformat documents so if you have any suggestions or tricks I would welcome them:

1) Most of my paragraphs are numbered and continuously edited until a document is finished. Is there a way to associate a paragraph style with a numbered list style so one automatically accompanies the other?

2) Most times I have to insert a new paragraph in a numbered list the new paragraph has a different paragraph format from the paragraph before and after so it will have to be individually formatted almost every time. It helps if I enter a hard return from the previous paragraph but the product does not seem to function consistently.

3) Is there a way to load a document and then load your NORMAL template into it so it gets rid of the previous formatting and makes it easy to format it using a limited list of styles?

Thank you so much for any responses.