[DeanH]

Why not create a bullet style with which to replace the old bullet list? This
can be created based on your bodytext, only with the necassary bullet
settings.

As the previous person has applied manual formatting, this can sometimes
interfere with the application of a style - work around is to apply the new
style then use Ctrl+Spacebar to clear all manual formatting on the selected
text.

Subscipts can be a bit harder to do quickly. If what you want is to have the
text that is subscript (or superscript) to remain as such after your exercise
why not Find&Replace Subscript (ie leave the Find box empty) and replaced
with Highlight. The highlight should stay will you do your reformatting
exercise, then at the end find highlight, repalce with subscript.
Does this work for you?
DeanH

"Rahul" wrote:

Hi,

I have defined a style for the format of my body text so that I can get
consistent Fonts, text-sizes, indents, line-spacing etc. With this I'm trying
to reformat a pretty long and intricate document but one without any
structured styles for formatting. The user had just applied ad hoc formates
everywhere! (a pain!)

My defined styles work great except when I have bulleted lists or subscripts
in the original doc. Application of my "bodytext" style causes the subscripts
and bulleted lists to revert. Then I have to manually correct for that.

Am I defining my styles wrong? I mean I can always reapply the
bullets/subscripts. But is there a way to define / apply a style so that this
info. is not lost when I apply my style?

-Rahul