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Spacing above first line of bullet text
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. |
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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. -- Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP Syntagma partnership site: http://www.syntagma.co.uk Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org "Geoff Tucker" wrote in message news 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. |
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Hi Margaret,
Thank you for the answer. That does seem to be working so far. One last question: if I want 2nd and 3rd level bullets to be different from the 1st level bullet, how can I change that? I found how to modify what the bullet is but so far I can't see how to change those lower level ones. Thanks again! "Margaret Aldis" wrote: 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. -- Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP Syntagma partnership site: http://www.syntagma.co.uk Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org "Geoff Tucker" wrote in message news 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. |
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If you use the built-in styles more or less as provided, you can use List
Bullet 1, List Bullet 2 and so on and just make whatever modifications you need to the bullet format. Each "level" is a separate style, with a separate bullet item format. Alternatively (neater but a bit more work), set up a hierarchy of bullets using outline numbering. Start from your top level style (say List Bullet), and when you get to the numbering dialog choose the Outline numbering tab instead of the Bullets one. The Customize dialog allows you to set up different formats for each level , each linked to a paragraph style. For each level/style, select the level, select the bullet you want, set up the indents, and link the level to a paragraph style (click the More button to get to the style selector dropdown). The nice thing about using the outline (multi-level) format is that you can change levels using the indent/outdent button. -- Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP Syntagma partnership site: http://www.syntagma.co.uk Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org "Geoff Tucker" wrote in message ... Hi Margaret, Thank you for the answer. That does seem to be working so far. One last question: if I want 2nd and 3rd level bullets to be different from the 1st level bullet, how can I change that? I found how to modify what the bullet is but so far I can't see how to change those lower level ones. Thanks again! "Margaret Aldis" wrote: 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. -- Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP Syntagma partnership site: http://www.syntagma.co.uk Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org "Geoff Tucker" wrote in message news 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. |
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