[MarjaE]

Thanks.

I have generally used tab and return, because styles would make everything go haywire.

I'd have an asterisked list, and a developer in would turn it into a numbered or bulleted list in Word, and I'd edit it in LibreOffice-- if LibreOffice didn't crash due to incompatible bullet points-- I'd end up with part numbered or bulleted, part not, and part numbered or bulleted again without continuity.

I created three styles and switched to "proper" tables instead of tabbed text tables, because I know text tables won't convert as well, but I absolutely need tables and need the items to line up, which also requires blank lines between some entries in the same cells.

P.S. If I change one of the styles to add a space after each paragraph, how do I update oher documents using the older versions of these styles?

I switched to NeoOffice because of my strobe sensitivity, but right now, neither LibreOffice nor OpenOffice will run due to a "Mutex" bug.