Bullets misbehaving!
JD, I know exactly what you mean, and this has bugged me since I moved up to
Word 2003. I was just looking through the forums for an answer and all I
could find was your question. Here's what I know: (turn on display of hidden
characters to make it obvious):
If the cursor is resting (blinking) on a bullet that's blank (no text on
that line, just a hard return) and I press the return/enter key, that bullet
changes to a normal (non-bulleted) line and the new line I've created is also
a normal (non-bulleted) line with the cursor resting at the start of that new
line. This happens whether I start on the last bullet of a set or I start on
an empty bullet in the middle of a set of bullets.
Note that this is not an issue of space before or after paragraphs. I'm
quite familiar with that option and use it a lot in my work. As I said,
turning on display of hard returns will make the behavior quite clear.
Now frankly, I find this irritating. I'm used to creating a number of extra
bullets within a set and then populating them with text in some order other
than first, second, third, etc. I know that I can select the bullets that
were automatically converted to normal paragraphs and convert them back, but
that does seem excessive. This was not an issue in Office 2000.
I thought there would be a checkbox somewhere in the style and formatting
options but so far I've been unable to find one that affects this behavior.
Maybe someone else knows where to find it . . .
Regards,
Bryan
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