Stephan,

Thank you for your reply.

1. Did find the template plus macro *.dotm and the quick set files *.dotx in C:\Users\myuser\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\([Templates][QuickStyles]). You can cut and paste or delete those files there to remove templates/style sets or save one to a backup location that you have gotten just the way you like it.

I'm sure you are aware of this but spelling it out so that maybe others can find it in a search. Have done maybe 30 google and bing searches trying to find that information and got a lot of useless baloney.

I am trying to reformat a large document, 300 pages, that already exists. This document has maybe a total of 300 un-ordered lists (bullets) and ordered lists. The unpredictability of the formatting of the lists , which lead me to redo two workstations from scratch, was the reason I was thinking buggy software, which in some sense appears to be true.

What did work for me was to create a template then open a new document using the template. Open the original document, do a select all then copy and paste it into the new document from the template. Using the replace function with the more > styles option I was then able to start changing the source document styles to my custom styles.

Thank you again for helping me get back on track.