General standards per job file?

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My impression, and I could easily be wrong, is that the general standards config, is limited to a few configurations that are applied to all job files. You can not set a general standards config that is encapsulated in a specific job file and always applied to that job only.  This may not be a limitation on the scale of my first impression, but it would be nice to have that embedded, and not changing, when opening and editing specific jobs. Can someone summarize the overall impact of general standards on all job files?  Yes I'm a newbie, but in test editing several job files, I noticed things changing based on action of other jobs. Diligence required...