As a long-time Word user, I understand the quirkiness of bulleted list. You always seem to end up with different indents for the same level bullets, although all (you think) you did was press the bullet list button on the tool bar. After all those years, I still haven't figured out a good way of "unifying" bulleted paragraphs, other than copying and pasting the "model" paragraphs to the rest.

Has there been a breakthrough for this cleaning-up process?

Sorry no breakthrugh but, a standard procedure. Here is a link that should help you:

http://shaunakelly.com/word/bullets/...llets2003.html

Hope this helps.

That was really helpful!
I've been such a long-time user of Word that it's beyond me why I haven't taken notice of this new feature. Tying styles with bullet levels is clever. Especially combining keyboard shortcut (Shift + Alt + arrow) with level change! Although this means that you can have only one set of bulleted list tied to styles, that's more than enough to keep your sanity when working with bulleted list!