Varying characteristics for individual products

Hi,

After you added your characteristics to a product, you can the click on the "manage variants" button to edit the different variants and/or delete the ones you don't need. So you can do it.

However, please be careful about adding too many variants to a product: each combination of values is generated. If you have 10 values for each characteristic, that means 1000 variants generated automatically in one page. It can be too much for some shared hostings.
In that case, I would recommend to split them in different characteristics so that the system generates less than a few hundred of variants. That will also reduce your work as you will have less variants to delete. You can have several characteristics with the same name so no problem with the display ( note the id down to know which one you want to use when editing the products).

I need help on this subject myself.

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^^ Here's what I'm working on... the three different sizes we offer for this product (and most of the jams are 10 lbs., 20 lbs., and 50 lbs., I would like to have the consumer be able to select the size they would like and have the information below change per selection. As we also list the skid size for the size they require or would like to purchase, and they will change with the choice of 10, 20 and 50 lbs. pails. Please reply when you can regarding this subject.

I'm trying to change the display settings in the tab Display of the configuration but I don't see the changes on my product/category listing on the front end.
That's because the settings on that screen are only for NEW menus and modules. Existing modules and menus have their own set of options that you can access via the menus Display->Content menus and Display->Content modules.