[Nebulous]

In previous versions of Word this was relatively easy. I'm pretty adept with
Office products, but as far as I can see this is no longer possible. Can
someone confirm or enlighten me?

I don't like the indents that Word 2007 imposes on bulleted and numbered
lists -- it wastes a lt of space and for me is difficult to visually scan. I
prefer my first levels of bullets (or numbers) to appear so that the bullet
is lined up with the left margin with a hanging indent of 0.25". Then I like
the second level of bullets to be at 0.25" with a hanging indent of 0.5",
etc.

Harder to describe than I thought. It would look like this (unless this
support forum removes my extra spaces; then it might look like a mess):

-----------------
This is my regular paragraph text.
* Here's my first-level bulleted text
- Here's my second-level bulleted text
Here's my third-level bulleted text
-----------------

I continually have to adjust each bullet level, because I can't seem to
figure out a way to tell Word that I want this system as my default.

Further frustrating is the fact that even in a particular document, when I
adjust the indents in one list and then create another list further down the
document, the second and future levels revert. I have to adjust them again.

It doesn't seem Word 2007 is as smart about these things as it used to be.

Am I missing something?

Thanks!