Word

I'm just going to start right out by saying that Word is driving me up the wall today. I'll explain (or rant) soon, but first have to sort out problems with Spotify and my memory. Between Word and this sex abuse case that's national news at the moment and that blatantly and excruciatingly exposes the rampant rape culture in this country, I'm in a vile mood and need music, so I thought a bit of cowboy folk might help, specifically a band I've been listening to since uni days, which I damn well know the name of and you will too — two women, guitar, rocking, been around forever and hopefully always will, you know the one — and I'm sure it will come to me by the end of this post, but if it doesn't, I'm going to have to start eating more salmon and doing crosswords, because that sort of forgetfulness isn't really acceptable. Anyway, I tried Cowboy Junkies and that wasn't right, so then I tried the name of one of their albums, and that led me to 10,000 Maniacs, which is also good, but still not right, and now I'm going to talk more about Word and hope that some other part of my brain keeps trawling through its musical archive for me.So, I am working on a large document that has been hacked about to the point where it may well be in terminal decline: it started off neat and lovely with a full set of nicely organised Word styles, but things have been pasted in from other documents, other authors have added material with different formatting, I've broken it into about 20 chunks, all of which have been substantially edited, then I've shoved it all back together, and now it's just sitting there looking pathetic and refusing to do anything I ask.Somewhere in this (admittedly appalling) process, the bulleting went astray, so I cleared out the bullet styles and have spent the last hour or two trying to reset them. I know exactly how I want them to look and I'm not a complete Word idiot, but it keeps defaulting to List Paragraph, and if it's not doing that, it's doing this other irritating thing where every time I try to base one bullet style on another one, it REMOVES the bullets from the original style, perhaps as a tax on excessive style mongering, I DON'T KNOW. I may be complicating things by having separate styles for

• bullet lists
• final items in bullet lists
• numbered lists
• final items in bullet lists
• checkboxes, and
• dashed lists

but I really feel that this isn't too much to ask. WHAT AM I DOING WRONG? If anyone can help me before my empha-capsing gets out of control, that'd be awesome.Sweet Jesus, it's girls. Something girls.Maybe if I try to create styles in a blank document, then import them? I did get the page numbering to work, so that's nice. I can't even charge for the hours I spend being stupid, which is a little-acknowledged downside of the self-employed, freelancing lifestyle.I refuse to scan my CD rack or do Google Deduction. MY BRAIN WILL WORK.What do you know, the name was sitting on Spotify next to the 10,000 Maniacs playlist.INDIGO GIRLS. I wonder how long it would have taken me to get there? Update: Word just crashed and I haven't yet dared to look and see what I lost. Vindictive bastard.