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In Word 2003, I want to permanently reduce the ridiculously wide indents of bulleted lists. I've finally succeeded in permanently changing the first level bullet, but no matter what I do any change I make to subsequent levels only seems to apply to the document I'm working on. How can I permanently change the indents for all levels?
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You can change the styles used for those lists in the template attached to your documents and refresh the styles from that template.
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Take a look at Shauna Kelly's page: How to control bullets in Microsoft Word 2000, 2002 and 2003 | ShaunaKelly.com
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Thanks, Charles Kenyon! Shauna's page told me what I needed to know. It's still a pretty cumbersome process, but it sure beats having to manually reset the indents for every single list.
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Once you have them set the way you like, save a document with the settings and no text as a template you can use in the future.
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Actually, by following Shauna's directions, the changes have already been saved (apparently to the default template), because they are now showing up in new documents.
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