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I think the easiest way is to delete your old project, and then create a new project with the same name and import from the new source control location, using File > Source Control >Import Project.

You can use autonumbering to add bullets to a paragraph. Say you want to create a style "p.Bullet." To do this inside Flare

1. open the stylesheet editor and go to Advanced View.
2. Select show paragraph styles in the left-hand menu.
3. Right-click on p and select add class. Enter Bullet when ...

Couple of thoughts here:

"Default Paragraph Font" in Frame is rarely explicitly used. You might use it in a variable or xref format, for example, where you have the first part in italics, and now you want it to revert to "default paragraph font."

For the italics, if they were applied directly in ...

Try setting the background and color on the Text Frame, not on the page. To do this, select the text frame and press F4 to open the frame dialog. (You can tell you have the right dialog if you see Frame Properties as the tile, and Flow as one of the options on the left.)

The best I've been able to find, you can highlight all the cells in a table, right -click, and select "Cell Content Style". In my experience, it's easier to set a td style for each table style.

You could do a search and replace in source. Go to Home > Find and Replace in Files and select "Find in source code". Then for each style you want to replace do the following two searches:

Search for Resources/TableStyles/OldTableStyle.css
Replace with Resources/TableStyles/MyTableStyle.css (where ...

Indherited styles:

There are some styles that are built-in, so they cannot be deleted. The h1, h2, etc. styles are obvious examples. There are some flare-specific styles like that as well. You keep these styles from appearing on the menu using the mc-hidden property, in the Unclassified section of ...

Is it possible you inadvertently changed the default layout of your project to your landscape layout? Open Project > Project Properties and look at the defaults tab.

are you talking about vertical alignment or horizontal alignment?

If you are doing something like a note, where you want special formatting for a couple of paragraphs, another option is to use a div. The background of a div will go across paragraphs. You will need to define the font and background you want for the div in the style sheet (say div.note). Then to ...