Mr Kenyon:


Nice to interface with you again. I hope all goes well Wisconsin way.


I get styles, and see a big advantage of using them.
I can now also create and modify a style.
What has me confused, and I think I'm onto the issue of WHY I'm corrupting them but looking for help with my three problems.
Say I have two styles, Style 1 and Style 2. Style 1 is set to left margin and Style 2 is indent offset from the left.

PROBLEM 1: I set my document to Style 1 using an EXACT 28 pts.
I now need to do a single space quotation, with a double space before and after.
I have NOT created a style for this as this would be Style 3..

What I've been doing is selecting the quote, going to Paragraph formatting, increasing the left and right indents, and changing EXACT to 14 pts.. The style identifier still says it is Style 1. BUT by my action, it APPEARS, I've NOW made Style 1 to be be a single indented quote and Just CORRUPTED Style 1. It APPEAR that Style 1 if Set to something else.
While I can create a quote style, a lot of time quotes need to be different and on the fly formatted.
So is there any solution other than another style?


2) PROBLEM 2. If I have a long paragraph with Style 1, and I want part of that paragraph to be Style 2, I select the words of interest, and then Select Style 2.
A lot of times it will NOT change to the Style 2. I found that if I put a number of spaces before and after the selection, or blank paragraph symbols, then the New Style MOST OF THE TIME will be applied, and then I have to go back and erase the empty spaces or paragraphs. A real pain.


PROBLEM 3. I got pretty efficient at making my own pleading paper. I normally align the text box to the bottom of the header and top of the footer. What is occurring, is the first page looks great, but the second page starts between the pleading number and continues that way for the rest of the document. I've tried several things such as marking the first line as EXACTLY 14 pts instead of 28 pts. It changes but now I have two single line at top. I've also tried Shift + Enter, and also Tools >Options > Compatability > "Dont enter exact", BUT again issues.


David