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bullets and numbered lists apply to ALL styles
Sometimes, when I apply a bullet or numbered list to a style, it applies it
to all the styles in my doc and creates a new, numbered style. Then I click undo and it unconverts the other styles and applies the bullet or numbering to only my original selection. When this occurs, my file size often grows, as if it is saving every single change, including the one that I had to undo. This is extremely annoying and I have had a 1k file balloon to 200M! What is happening, and is there a better way to create bulleted and numbered lists? |
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Are the affected styles based on the style you are changing? That
would explain why they get the same formatting. You can clear the bullet (or numbering) formatting from the style definitions. Alternatively, an easier solution would be to use a numbered (bulleted) style that is not the "parent" of other styles. You can use the built-in List Bullet and List Number styles for this purpose. If you are adding bullet or numbering formatting as direct formatting (via FormatBullets and Numbering) automatic updating of styles could be the problem. Please see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...eformatted.htm. Style hierarchy could be an issue here, too. I don't know how/why this affects file size, though. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Mark at Icom" Mark at wrote in message ... Sometimes, when I apply a bullet or numbered list to a style, it applies it to all the styles in my doc and creates a new, numbered style. Then I click undo and it unconverts the other styles and applies the bullet or numbering to only my original selection. When this occurs, my file size often grows, as if it is saving every single change, including the one that I had to undo. This is extremely annoying and I have had a 1k file balloon to 200M! What is happening, and is there a better way to create bulleted and numbered lists? |
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Stefan:
Thank you very much! The article in the link cleared my problem, I thought that automatically update meant updating only for that instance (such as when I would modify a style myself), I had no idea that anything else I did would affect everything. I have always used the philosophy of "don't mess with normal" and "base everything on normal", so now the problem makes sense. Since my docs get imported to other applications, I have tried to keep them simple stylistically. No one is this company knows much about Word, and I am a jaded FrameMaker user. I will spread this info around. Mark "Stefan Blom" wrote: Are the affected styles based on the style you are changing? That would explain why they get the same formatting. You can clear the bullet (or numbering) formatting from the style definitions. Alternatively, an easier solution would be to use a numbered (bulleted) style that is not the "parent" of other styles. You can use the built-in List Bullet and List Number styles for this purpose. If you are adding bullet or numbering formatting as direct formatting (via FormatBullets and Numbering) automatic updating of styles could be the problem. Please see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...eformatted.htm. Style hierarchy could be an issue here, too. I don't know how/why this affects file size, though. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Mark at Icom" Mark at wrote in message ... Sometimes, when I apply a bullet or numbered list to a style, it applies it to all the styles in my doc and creates a new, numbered style. Then I click undo and it unconverts the other styles and applies the bullet or numbering to only my original selection. When this occurs, my file size often grows, as if it is saving every single change, including the one that I had to undo. This is extremely annoying and I have had a 1k file balloon to 200M! What is happening, and is there a better way to create bulleted and numbered lists? |
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