Sorry, I can't get any of the lists to work!

@Vincent_Vincent as you said, each paragraph of a list has its own style. Perhaps I didn’t look deep enough but here is my understanding. I will be Very happy to be wrong.

If we select an entire list and apply a style, then all bullets at all indent levels get that same style. So all nested items will need to be re-nested.

Correct?

It looks like you’re offering a nice, standard set of indent styles. Which is great, but each style will need to be applied to each bullet/paragraph in the entire document - and at the proper indent level - to ensure that each nested item has the standard styling.

Correct?

If yes and yes, that’s the pain I refuse to endure.

I can easily select any level 1 node now, and decide that’s my standard.
But I won’t go through the doc to paste that to all other level 1 nodes.
Same with all level 2s.

I noted above that the Win+Alt+Shift+C/V keystrokes were not working with the rulers. I was incorrect. I just retried, verifying the correct contortion of fingers, and it works great.
Doing that on all bullets in a document? Nah.

And FWIW, this isn’t just about bullets. A lot of styles changed across versions. I have pages that look radically different from old to new. I’m not going to look at each paragraph, decide how I want it to look, go find the right style, do the contortion, come back, contort again, and then smile at the progress.
I don’t want to take a chance that this will happen in upcoming versions. I need to cut losses, migrate this doc to a different platform that’s designed for this specific kind of work, and move forward there.

Again - Scrivener for organization - 1,000,000%. Not for formatting. We already know this. I just got too wrapped up in my love for nicely organizing my techdocs. Mea culpa.

I use Copy Formatting and Paste Formatting (buttons not available by default) to get lists to a consistent style (that I have setup). At least Paste Formatting is a multiple paste, meaning you don’t need to copy / past formatting repeatedly, just copy the style’s format once and paste where required many times. Yes, it makes everything level 1 bullets, even after you’ve tabbed where required to indent to level 2. So, setup a single level 2 bullet as you’d like all to appear, copy format once and paste where required. Understandably, if most of your work is bulleted it’s a pain, but for me it was less so as I only use bullets and sub-bullets here and there in a novel.