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MS Office Forum / Word / Numbering / August 2005Change of built-in styles, numbers & bullets
XPP 2003 SP2 Word 2003 SP1 Hello, In Word 2003 I sometimes use the Numbering and Bullet buttons on the Formatting Toolbar for some quick short numbering or bullets. I want to change the default paragraph formatting (left margin and indent) of these built-in functions. And surly, these functions must be based on built-in styles, but which ones? I've looked under Styles and Formatting and at the various styles like List Bullet and List Number, but none of them seem right. For more serious formatting, I have my Outline numbering set up with my templates and it works very well (even if it took quite some time to learn). Regards, Eric G Stockholm, Sweden You can't ever get consistent results using the Bullets and Numbering buttons, which will apply whatever format has most recently been selected (and it's never the one you want). You can use Ctrl+Shift+L to apply the List Bullet style (which can be customized any way you like), and you could also define a keyboard shortcut for List Number. Right now, Ctrl+Alt+L is assigned to InsertListNumField; if you never want to do that, it would be a good one for List Number.  SignatureSuzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. XPP 2003 SP2 Word 2003 SP1 Hello, In Word 2003 I sometimes use the Numbering and Bullet buttons on the Formatting Toolbar for some quick short numbering or bullets. I want to change the default paragraph formatting (left margin and indent) of these built-in functions. And surly, these functions must be based on built-in styles, but which ones? I've looked under Styles and Formatting and at the various styles like List Bullet and List Number, but none of them seem right. For more serious formatting, I have my Outline numbering set up with my templates and it works very well (even if it took quite some time to learn). Regards, Eric G Stockholm, Sweden Hello Susan and thanks for your reply. I'm aware of the inherent problems in the two buttons (or more correctly, their function). I only use these buttons when I write something really simple and need a few, quick, bulleted or numbered paragraphs. Then on the other hand, and as you say, its very easy to apply keyboard shortcuts to any style one wants to use, as an alternative. Once again, thank you. Eric G Stockholm, Sweden > You can't ever get consistent results using the Bullets and Numbering > buttons, which will apply whatever format has most recently been selected [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > > Stockholm, Sweden
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