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Challenge - How do I make a bullet style where the first word isbold?
Hello,
I'm creating various styles in Word for a long document. One of the styles I want is a bullet point where the first word is bold, but the rest of the bullet point isn't. The separator between the bold and non- bold part of the sentence is a colon or dash. If this works, I'll be able to have a Heading called "Advantages", and then a whole lot of bullet points that summarise each advantage in a sentence, but with a one-word summary at the start of the sentence that the reader can skim over. Ordinarily, you'd think this would be impossible to do, as the formatting is stored in the Enter symbol at the end of the sentence, and you shouldn't be able to store two character formats in the one Enter symbol. But if you go into a new paragraph in Word (I'm using 2003), select a bullet point using the icon on the formatting toolbar, manually make the first word bold, and then deselect bold after the colon, then when you hit Enter, the next bullet point follows the same format. Therefore, this must be a format that Word can understand. The question is, how does one make it into a style called List1? |
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Challenge - How do I make a bullet style where the first word is bold?
There is a setting in AutoFormat As You Type to "Format beginning of list
item like the one before it," but I don't believe there's any way to incorporate this in a style. If the bold part were always the same, you could use the word as your "bullet" and format it as bold, but that doesn't seem to be the case, judging from your description. Most people just apply the bold manually. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Durand" wrote in message ... Hello, I'm creating various styles in Word for a long document. One of the styles I want is a bullet point where the first word is bold, but the rest of the bullet point isn't. The separator between the bold and non- bold part of the sentence is a colon or dash. If this works, I'll be able to have a Heading called "Advantages", and then a whole lot of bullet points that summarise each advantage in a sentence, but with a one-word summary at the start of the sentence that the reader can skim over. Ordinarily, you'd think this would be impossible to do, as the formatting is stored in the Enter symbol at the end of the sentence, and you shouldn't be able to store two character formats in the one Enter symbol. But if you go into a new paragraph in Word (I'm using 2003), select a bullet point using the icon on the formatting toolbar, manually make the first word bold, and then deselect bold after the colon, then when you hit Enter, the next bullet point follows the same format. Therefore, this must be a format that Word can understand. The question is, how does one make it into a style called List1? |
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Challenge - How do I make a bullet style where the first wordis bold?
Hi Durand
Durand wrote: [..] Ordinarily, you'd think this would be impossible to do, as the formatting is stored in the Enter symbol at the end of the sentence, and you shouldn't be able to store two character formats in the one Enter symbol. But if you go into a new paragraph in Word (I'm using 2003), select a bullet point using the icon on the formatting toolbar, manually make the first word bold, and then deselect bold after the colon, then when you hit Enter, the next bullet point follows the same format. Therefore, this must be a format that Word can understand. The question is, how does one make it into a style called List1? what you want to take a look at is a style separator (introduced in Word 2002 or 2003). If you want a solution that works at least back to Word 97, you can also hide the paragraph mark after the bold part. So, in essence, you need a bulleted style and try out if you can follow it with your ordinary body text style. 2cents Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MSFT | \ / | MVP | Scientific Reports X Against HTML | for | with Word? / \ in e-mail & news | Word | http://www.masteringword.eu/ |
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