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MS Office Forum / Word / Long Documents / February 2004Bullet Problem
I choose a List Bullet 2 style but change the round bullet for a dash. Everytime I re-open the file, it reverts back to the circle bullet - anything I can do to stop this as the company policy is a dash at level 2 bullets. Did you modify the style itself? Did you modify it through Format | Numbering? This works best if you use the Outline Numbering tab and link the level to the style. And if you are actually using outline "numbering" for bullets, you'd be best advised to set up the styles and numbering as explained in http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numbering/OutlineNumbering.html. See also http://www.ShaunaKelly.com/word/bullets/controlbullets.html -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word)  SignatureWords into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > I choose a List Bullet 2 style but change the round bullet for a dash. > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > 2 bullets. Thank you Suzanne, I read the web site and followed the whole deal on the outline numbering for some bullet and number styles I have. However, the new problem is - this is all done in a template that will be used frequently. I attached the template to multiple documents yesterday and then the outline indents would not appear. Everything is at the left margin rather then stepped in. The style guide visually shows them on the left and yet when I choose to modify the style to rebuild the .25" step for each level, they are defined correctly - just not working though. Any reason for this that you know of? > Did you modify the style itself? Did you modify it through Format | > Numbering? This works best if you use the Outline Numbering tab and link the [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > > > 2 bullets. What happens if you select any given paragraph and press Ctrl+Q? And when you attached the template, did you check "Automatically update document styles"? (Be sure to uncheck it after the initial update.) -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) SignatureWords into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > Thank you Suzanne, I read the web site and followed the whole deal on the > outline numbering for some bullet and number styles I have. [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > > > > > > 2 bullets. Automatically update is definitely not on. It has it's advantages but not when I want others to use this template too. I understand styles well but not my co-workers. Anyway, nothing happens when I press Ctrl-Q. This document was 'Normal' style first then I applied the styles. This effect is totally new and makes no sense why all the definitions are correct and yet the result is all left. I did however go back into Outline Number and OK'd the dialog for Bullet Level 1 (having changed nothing) and everything snapped back into place. This may have worked for me but this will be useless when I send the document to the client and they have the same visual - meaning all on the left even though the definition is correct. Anything else you can think of would be greatly appreciated. > What happens if you select any given paragraph and press Ctrl+Q? And when > you attached the template, did you check "Automatically update document [quoted text clipped - 52 lines] > > > > > > > > 2 bullets. If what you're saying is that you attached the template and then applied the template styles, then "Automatically update" would not be needed, but, just to be clear, I'm talking about the setting in Tools | Templates and Add-ins, not the one in Format | Style. But, although I am *not* an expert on numbering, I've gathered that numbered styles often cause a problem in attaching templates. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) SignatureWords into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > Automatically update is definitely not on. It has it's advantages but not > when I want others to use this template too. I understand styles well but [quoted text clipped - 70 lines] > > > > > > > > > > 2 bullets. Hi Deborah > I did however go back into Outline Number and OK'd the dialog for Bullet > Level 1 (having changed nothing) and everything snapped back into place. This symptom can occur if you had previously clicked within a level 2 (or level 3 etc) paragraph and done Format > Styles etc from there. For numbering to work properly, you must always click within a paragraph in the style that is linked to Level 1 in your numbering scheme, and then do Format > Styles etc. Once you've got your numbering set up properly, remembering this is absolutely the hardest thing about maintaining the numbering. You might also find the following useful: How to safely update a document's styles from its template without using the Organizer (and how to make the Tools + Templates and Add-ins dialog safe) http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/MacrosVBA/UpdateStyles.htm Hope this helps. Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word > Automatically update is definitely not on. It has it's advantages but not > when I want others to use this template too. I understand styles well but [quoted text clipped - 70 lines] > > > > > > > > > > 2 bullets. |
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