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Some attributes stick, others don't. I have found, for instance, that
paragraph indents applied specifically to a single paragraph, are lost
when you reopen the document, however other things stick.

I solved the problem by creating a style for exceptions like these. Not
an ideal solution, but a workable one.

Which then leaves me to ponder the organization of my document, if the
style tags I created then need so many exceptions. It's a good
opportunity to review formatting and structure as a whole, when these
exceptions and special cases begin to proliferate.

Readers are inclined to assume a significance to any exception to
standard formatting. To give them what they expect, there ought to be a
coherent reason for the change, and that should be applied consistently
throughout the document.

Readers are also inclined to assume a level of complexity beyond their
capability to understand, if they see a *lot* of exceptions to standard
formatting, hence the need to rethink and perhaps restructure a
document.

I do not "know" this for any reason other than "I just thought it up,
and it seems right" -- if there is a body of work that either
corroborates or discredits these thoughts, I'm interested in pursuing it
further...

Cheers, @DISCLAIMER@
Gwen gwen -dot- barnes -at- mustang -dot- com
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