I have an original document in MS dock that I have converted to MS doc format. I have the same document in oct format. The original document was extremely badly formatted and needs to be edited extensively before it can be published on the web as a PDF document.
I have saved the styles in an odt document in the folder set aside for personal styles, and have been editing these styles as I go along. Unfortunately, altering steles seems to be difficult, and especially for bullet lists. I have been able to replace the bullet character, I have been able to set the indent level, but I have had zero success in altering the spacings — no matter which level — using the “Bullets and Numbering ...” Pulldown menu. Everytime I change the tab position in the Position sub menu, it defaults to 17.64 pt. I cannot alter this for any level of bullets! I have created special styles labelled Bullet 1, Bullet 2, Bullet 3, but they also will not allow any alteration. This is the case for oct, doc, and ott files.
My thought is that all these styles are inherited from a base style in the original dock file, but I am unable to delete any styles from the styles and formatting menu, nor do I have a way to determine where the original styles are used.
One possibility is to set the default style of the document to another clean style, but my guess is a) all styles not in the clean style will be copied over.
Please, any thoughts welcome!