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Can it be done: bullet points HALF-WAY through a line??
Hi all,
Going nuts right now. I'd really like to put a bullet point list starting half way through a line of text, but can't figure out how to do it. For example: 2002-2003 --- Queen's award for export achievement .... where the --- represents the start of the bullet point list. i.e. I'd like to have some text to the left of the bullet point, *without* using columns or tables (sadly, this would mess up the formatting for the whole rest of the document) Is the bullet point strictly a paragraph-level entity? of course, this is possible: 2002-2003 --- Queen's award for export achievement .... but is is possible to have the date and then bullet point on the same line? I've tried looking around Microsoft Word, and usually I'm pretty good with it, but this time it's just not working. Many thanks for your time! Regards Simon |
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Hi Simon
Create a 2-column table. Format the text in the second column with bullets. -- Regards Jonathan West - Word MVP www.intelligentdocuments.co.uk Please reply to the newsgroup "Simon" wrote in message news Hi all, Going nuts right now. I'd really like to put a bullet point list starting half way through a line of text, but can't figure out how to do it. For example: 2002-2003 --- Queen's award for export achievement ... where the --- represents the start of the bullet point list. i.e. I'd like to have some text to the left of the bullet point, *without* using columns or tables (sadly, this would mess up the formatting for the whole rest of the document) Is the bullet point strictly a paragraph-level entity? of course, this is possible: 2002-2003 --- Queen's award for export achievement ... but is is possible to have the date and then bullet point on the same line? I've tried looking around Microsoft Word, and usually I'm pretty good with it, but this time it's just not working. Many thanks for your time! Regards Simon |
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Automatic bullets can only be applied at the beginning of a paragraph, but
there's no reason you can't insert a bullet manually as a font character (Insert | Symbol). Set your indents and tab stops as required for this layout (hanging indent where you want "Queen's award..." to start, tab stop where the bullet goes), then type the date, Tab once, insert your bullet, Tab again, and start typing. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Simon" wrote in message news Hi all, Going nuts right now. I'd really like to put a bullet point list starting half way through a line of text, but can't figure out how to do it. For example: 2002-2003 --- Queen's award for export achievement ... where the --- represents the start of the bullet point list. i.e. I'd like to have some text to the left of the bullet point, *without* using columns or tables (sadly, this would mess up the formatting for the whole rest of the document) Is the bullet point strictly a paragraph-level entity? of course, this is possible: 2002-2003 --- Queen's award for export achievement ... but is is possible to have the date and then bullet point on the same line? I've tried looking around Microsoft Word, and usually I'm pretty good with it, but this time it's just not working. Many thanks for your time! Regards Simon |
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He said he didn't want to use a table, and indeed it is not necessary.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jonathan West" wrote in message ... Hi Simon Create a 2-column table. Format the text in the second column with bullets. -- Regards Jonathan West - Word MVP www.intelligentdocuments.co.uk Please reply to the newsgroup "Simon" wrote in message news Hi all, Going nuts right now. I'd really like to put a bullet point list starting half way through a line of text, but can't figure out how to do it. For example: 2002-2003 --- Queen's award for export achievement ... where the --- represents the start of the bullet point list. i.e. I'd like to have some text to the left of the bullet point, *without* using columns or tables (sadly, this would mess up the formatting for the whole rest of the document) Is the bullet point strictly a paragraph-level entity? of course, this is possible: 2002-2003 --- Queen's award for export achievement ... but is is possible to have the date and then bullet point on the same line? I've tried looking around Microsoft Word, and usually I'm pretty good with it, but this time it's just not working. Many thanks for your time! Regards Simon |
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Thank you for your quick and helpful reply (both Jonathan West and
yourself)! Hope you have a great day! thanks Simon "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Automatic bullets can only be applied at the beginning of a paragraph, but there's no reason you can't insert a bullet manually as a font character (Insert | Symbol). Set your indents and tab stops as required for this layout (hanging indent where you want "Queen's award..." to start, tab stop where the bullet goes), then type the date, Tab once, insert your bullet, Tab again, and start typing. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Simon" wrote in message news Hi all, Going nuts right now. I'd really like to put a bullet point list starting half way through a line of text, but can't figure out how to do it. For example: 2002-2003 --- Queen's award for export achievement ... where the --- represents the start of the bullet point list. i.e. I'd like to have some text to the left of the bullet point, *without* using columns or tables (sadly, this would mess up the formatting for the whole rest of the document) Is the bullet point strictly a paragraph-level entity? of course, this is possible: 2002-2003 --- Queen's award for export achievement ... but is is possible to have the date and then bullet point on the same line? I've tried looking around Microsoft Word, and usually I'm pretty good with it, but this time it's just not working. Many thanks for your time! Regards Simon |
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