Hi Geoff

Your problem is that your Bulleted style is a "List Style", not a paragraph
one. To get a hold on this, try using List Bullet style. Set some space
above, and if you want the bullet items to be single spaced check the "Don't
add space between paragraphs of the same style" box.

If you need to change existing bullet items, you should be able to do that
by selecting all the currently "bulleted" items via the Styles and
Formatting pane, and then applying List Bullet style (or whatever you
choose). Alternatively use Find and Replace.

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"Geoff Tucker" wrote in message
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Just like you can format a certain amount of spacing (leading) before and
after a paragraph, I want to modify my Styles Bulleted style to
automatically
insert a fixed amount of space between the last line of a paragraph and
the
list of bulleted items that follow it.

Right now, my document template is set up for single spacing. It requires
two hard returns at the end of a paragraph to have a blank line between
paragraphs. When the user starts a list of bulleted items, I need some
additional white space before the list starts to set it apart, but not as
much space as a single line height. I am using Times New Roman in 11 point
size as my default fault, so I think 6 points of spacing above the first
bulleted line would be ideal.

When I click "modify" for the Styles Bulleted in the Styles palette, the
Paragraph option is grayed out in the Format pull-down on the bottom left.
I
have looked through all the other settings and I cannot find a way to make
this happen.

Does any have any suggestions (preferably not manual formatting each time;
we're trying to automate this as much as possible) of how to make this
work?

Thanks for your suggestions.