I have a problem I can’t seem to solve.
I am doing a typography piece so each word needs to fade in at different times but all the words have the same material. So I have a temp font object which I just copy and then edit for each word. In the past I have just clicked the number next to the material to make a single user object. But today it is not working for some reason.
I click the button and it copies the material and renames it but when I insert keyframes for the transparency it also keyframes the original temp text object.
Does anybody know anything or am I just on my own?
As in the title I am using 2.55 r33274, could that be my problem?
actually solve my problem 
Just press the plus sign button next to the material name area to copy the material. Apparently that works!