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Dissapearing bullets
I would be most grateful for assistance in a baffling problem.
I have a multipage document that among other things contains two areas that are bulleted. When I copy the styles from a style template that I have made, one set of bulleted text shows without its bullets. I thought there was a problem with the styles that I was copying over, but if I highlight the bulleted text, and go to formats and then style the the bullets magically appear again. Even if I do nothing to the style screen. The styles name for this text that I am copying over matches the style name of the problem text and does show as bulleted on the styles dialog screen. I have, to my knowledge, removed any manual formatting from the problem area prior to copying over the styles I have spent hours on this and cannot understand what I am doing wrong. Any suggestions? Thank you |
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Instead of going to Format | Style, try just selecting the paragraphs and
pressing Ctrl+Q to reset the paragraphs to the default style formatting. It's possible that the bullets were added as direct formatting in the source document. -- 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. "Gem_man" wrote in message ... I would be most grateful for assistance in a baffling problem. I have a multipage document that among other things contains two areas that are bulleted. When I copy the styles from a style template that I have made, one set of bulleted text shows without its bullets. I thought there was a problem with the styles that I was copying over, but if I highlight the bulleted text, and go to formats and then style the the bullets magically appear again. Even if I do nothing to the style screen. The styles name for this text that I am copying over matches the style name of the problem text and does show as bulleted on the styles dialog screen. I have, to my knowledge, removed any manual formatting from the problem area prior to copying over the styles I have spent hours on this and cannot understand what I am doing wrong. Any suggestions? Thank you |
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Thanks for the reply Suzanne
The problem is that the copying of the styles is being done programatically and doing the Ctrl Q thing is not really an option as I want this to appear perfect each time the style is copied across. There are several issues that I am getting to the bottom of but the thing I cant get my head around is the following:- The style of the bullet in the orginal document (no manual formatting is present) remains unaltered after the new style has been applied which has a different bullet style attached to that style. In other words the original bullet style overides whatever is applied to it latterly. I have followed an excellent article by Shauna Kelly to the letter but still have no joy. How can the original format persist after a new style has been applied? Many thanks "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Instead of going to Format | Style, try just selecting the paragraphs and pressing Ctrl+Q to reset the paragraphs to the default style formatting. It's possible that the bullets were added as direct formatting in the source document. -- 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. "Gem_man" wrote in message ... I would be most grateful for assistance in a baffling problem. I have a multipage document that among other things contains two areas that are bulleted. When I copy the styles from a style template that I have made, one set of bulleted text shows without its bullets. I thought there was a problem with the styles that I was copying over, but if I highlight the bulleted text, and go to formats and then style the the bullets magically appear again. Even if I do nothing to the style screen. The styles name for this text that I am copying over matches the style name of the problem text and does show as bulleted on the styles dialog screen. I have, to my knowledge, removed any manual formatting from the problem area prior to copying over the styles I have spent hours on this and cannot understand what I am doing wrong. Any suggestions? Thank you |
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PS
The orginal document has the bullet level linked to the correct style, as does the teplate on which it is based and so does the the Style that gets copied over. But after the style has been copied, the level is linked to "No Style" Could this be a clue? and if so what do you think is causing it? Thanks "Gem_man" wrote: Thanks for the reply Suzanne The problem is that the copying of the styles is being done programatically and doing the Ctrl Q thing is not really an option as I want this to appear perfect each time the style is copied across. There are several issues that I am getting to the bottom of but the thing I cant get my head around is the following:- The style of the bullet in the orginal document (no manual formatting is present) remains unaltered after the new style has been applied which has a different bullet style attached to that style. In other words the original bullet style overides whatever is applied to it latterly. I have followed an excellent article by Shauna Kelly to the letter but still have no joy. How can the original format persist after a new style has been applied? Many thanks "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Instead of going to Format | Style, try just selecting the paragraphs and pressing Ctrl+Q to reset the paragraphs to the default style formatting. It's possible that the bullets were added as direct formatting in the source document. -- 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. "Gem_man" wrote in message ... I would be most grateful for assistance in a baffling problem. I have a multipage document that among other things contains two areas that are bulleted. When I copy the styles from a style template that I have made, one set of bulleted text shows without its bullets. I thought there was a problem with the styles that I was copying over, but if I highlight the bulleted text, and go to formats and then style the the bullets magically appear again. Even if I do nothing to the style screen. The styles name for this text that I am copying over matches the style name of the problem text and does show as bulleted on the styles dialog screen. I have, to my knowledge, removed any manual formatting from the problem area prior to copying over the styles I have spent hours on this and cannot understand what I am doing wrong. Any suggestions? Thank you |
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By the way, when I do the CTRL Q thing on the bullets after the style has
been copied across, they correct themslves t what they should be. This is driving me nuts. Mr Gates will not be getting an xmas card this year. "Gem_man" wrote: Thanks for the reply Suzanne The problem is that the copying of the styles is being done programatically and doing the Ctrl Q thing is not really an option as I want this to appear perfect each time the style is copied across. There are several issues that I am getting to the bottom of but the thing I cant get my head around is the following:- The style of the bullet in the orginal document (no manual formatting is present) remains unaltered after the new style has been applied which has a different bullet style attached to that style. In other words the original bullet style overides whatever is applied to it latterly. I have followed an excellent article by Shauna Kelly to the letter but still have no joy. How can the original format persist after a new style has been applied? Many thanks "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Instead of going to Format | Style, try just selecting the paragraphs and pressing Ctrl+Q to reset the paragraphs to the default style formatting. It's possible that the bullets were added as direct formatting in the source document. -- 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. "Gem_man" wrote in message ... I would be most grateful for assistance in a baffling problem. I have a multipage document that among other things contains two areas that are bulleted. When I copy the styles from a style template that I have made, one set of bulleted text shows without its bullets. I thought there was a problem with the styles that I was copying over, but if I highlight the bulleted text, and go to formats and then style the the bullets magically appear again. Even if I do nothing to the style screen. The styles name for this text that I am copying over matches the style name of the problem text and does show as bulleted on the styles dialog screen. I have, to my knowledge, removed any manual formatting from the problem area prior to copying over the styles I have spent hours on this and cannot understand what I am doing wrong. Any suggestions? Thank you |
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I would suggest you post in the numbering NG.
-- 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. "Gem_man" wrote in message ... PS The orginal document has the bullet level linked to the correct style, as does the teplate on which it is based and so does the the Style that gets copied over. But after the style has been copied, the level is linked to "No Style" Could this be a clue? and if so what do you think is causing it? Thanks "Gem_man" wrote: Thanks for the reply Suzanne The problem is that the copying of the styles is being done programatically and doing the Ctrl Q thing is not really an option as I want this to appear perfect each time the style is copied across. There are several issues that I am getting to the bottom of but the thing I cant get my head around is the following:- The style of the bullet in the orginal document (no manual formatting is present) remains unaltered after the new style has been applied which has a different bullet style attached to that style. In other words the original bullet style overides whatever is applied to it latterly. I have followed an excellent article by Shauna Kelly to the letter but still have no joy. How can the original format persist after a new style has been applied? Many thanks "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Instead of going to Format | Style, try just selecting the paragraphs and pressing Ctrl+Q to reset the paragraphs to the default style formatting. It's possible that the bullets were added as direct formatting in the source document. -- 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. "Gem_man" wrote in message ... I would be most grateful for assistance in a baffling problem. I have a multipage document that among other things contains two areas that are bulleted. When I copy the styles from a style template that I have made, one set of bulleted text shows without its bullets. I thought there was a problem with the styles that I was copying over, but if I highlight the bulleted text, and go to formats and then style the the bullets magically appear again. Even if I do nothing to the style screen. The styles name for this text that I am copying over matches the style name of the problem text and does show as bulleted on the styles dialog screen. I have, to my knowledge, removed any manual formatting from the problem area prior to copying over the styles I have spent hours on this and cannot understand what I am doing wrong. Any suggestions? Thank you |
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Sorry Suzanne, I dont know what you mean by "post in the numbering NG"
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I would suggest you post in the numbering NG. -- 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. "Gem_man" wrote in message ... PS The orginal document has the bullet level linked to the correct style, as does the teplate on which it is based and so does the the Style that gets copied over. But after the style has been copied, the level is linked to "No Style" Could this be a clue? and if so what do you think is causing it? Thanks "Gem_man" wrote: Thanks for the reply Suzanne The problem is that the copying of the styles is being done programatically and doing the Ctrl Q thing is not really an option as I want this to appear perfect each time the style is copied across. There are several issues that I am getting to the bottom of but the thing I cant get my head around is the following:- The style of the bullet in the orginal document (no manual formatting is present) remains unaltered after the new style has been applied which has a different bullet style attached to that style. In other words the original bullet style overides whatever is applied to it latterly. I have followed an excellent article by Shauna Kelly to the letter but still have no joy. How can the original format persist after a new style has been applied? Many thanks "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Instead of going to Format | Style, try just selecting the paragraphs and pressing Ctrl+Q to reset the paragraphs to the default style formatting. It's possible that the bullets were added as direct formatting in the source document. -- 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. "Gem_man" wrote in message ... I would be most grateful for assistance in a baffling problem. I have a multipage document that among other things contains two areas that are bulleted. When I copy the styles from a style template that I have made, one set of bulleted text shows without its bullets. I thought there was a problem with the styles that I was copying over, but if I highlight the bulleted text, and go to formats and then style the the bullets magically appear again. Even if I do nothing to the style screen. The styles name for this text that I am copying over matches the style name of the problem text and does show as bulleted on the styles dialog screen. I have, to my knowledge, removed any manual formatting from the problem area prior to copying over the styles I have spent hours on this and cannot understand what I am doing wrong. Any suggestions? Thank you |
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I mean that you are more likely to get knowledgeable answers in you post in
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...word.numbering (also accessible at http://communities2.microsoft.com/co...&lang=en&cr=US). -- 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. "Gem_man" wrote in message ... Sorry Suzanne, I dont know what you mean by "post in the numbering NG" "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I would suggest you post in the numbering NG. -- 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. "Gem_man" wrote in message ... PS The orginal document has the bullet level linked to the correct style, as does the teplate on which it is based and so does the the Style that gets copied over. But after the style has been copied, the level is linked to "No Style" Could this be a clue? and if so what do you think is causing it? Thanks "Gem_man" wrote: Thanks for the reply Suzanne The problem is that the copying of the styles is being done programatically and doing the Ctrl Q thing is not really an option as I want this to appear perfect each time the style is copied across. There are several issues that I am getting to the bottom of but the thing I cant get my head around is the following:- The style of the bullet in the orginal document (no manual formatting is present) remains unaltered after the new style has been applied which has a different bullet style attached to that style. In other words the original bullet style overides whatever is applied to it latterly. I have followed an excellent article by Shauna Kelly to the letter but still have no joy. How can the original format persist after a new style has been applied? Many thanks "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Instead of going to Format | Style, try just selecting the paragraphs and pressing Ctrl+Q to reset the paragraphs to the default style formatting. It's possible that the bullets were added as direct formatting in the source document. -- 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. "Gem_man" wrote in message ... I would be most grateful for assistance in a baffling problem. I have a multipage document that among other things contains two areas that are bulleted. When I copy the styles from a style template that I have made, one set of bulleted text shows without its bullets. I thought there was a problem with the styles that I was copying over, but if I highlight the bulleted text, and go to formats and then style the the bullets magically appear again. Even if I do nothing to the style screen. The styles name for this text that I am copying over matches the style name of the problem text and does show as bulleted on the styles dialog screen. I have, to my knowledge, removed any manual formatting from the problem area prior to copying over the styles I have spent hours on this and cannot understand what I am doing wrong. Any suggestions? Thank you |
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I can confirm this is a problem - Word often seems reapply numbering as
direct formatting on pasting into a document, sometimes getting the format wrong in the process. If you have Word 2003 and can protect for styles that will prevent it happening, as then Word does seem to respect the target style absolutely. (See http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...376f364d?tvc=1 ) Alternatively you can use VBA to 'do the Ctrl-Q thing' - there is a Reset method on the Paragraph object which will do the trick, or you can reapply the style. You might want to look at http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...4fc34015?tvc=1 which is another description of the problem, though I don't know that Julie ever got a definitive workaround. I'm cross posting this to the numbering group, since I think your finding on the link is a good clue that might link in with the previous discussion. -- Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP Syntagma partnership site: http://www.syntagma.co.uk Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org "Gem_man" wrote in message ... PS The orginal document has the bullet level linked to the correct style, as does the teplate on which it is based and so does the the Style that gets copied over. But after the style has been copied, the level is linked to "No Style" Could this be a clue? and if so what do you think is causing it? Thanks "Gem_man" wrote: Thanks for the reply Suzanne The problem is that the copying of the styles is being done programatically and doing the Ctrl Q thing is not really an option as I want this to appear perfect each time the style is copied across. There are several issues that I am getting to the bottom of but the thing I cant get my head around is the following:- The style of the bullet in the orginal document (no manual formatting is present) remains unaltered after the new style has been applied which has a different bullet style attached to that style. In other words the original bullet style overides whatever is applied to it latterly. I have followed an excellent article by Shauna Kelly to the letter but still have no joy. How can the original format persist after a new style has been applied? Many thanks "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Instead of going to Format | Style, try just selecting the paragraphs and pressing Ctrl+Q to reset the paragraphs to the default style formatting. It's possible that the bullets were added as direct formatting in the source document. -- 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. "Gem_man" wrote in message ... I would be most grateful for assistance in a baffling problem. I have a multipage document that among other things contains two areas that are bulleted. When I copy the styles from a style template that I have made, one set of bulleted text shows without its bullets. I thought there was a problem with the styles that I was copying over, but if I highlight the bulleted text, and go to formats and then style the the bullets magically appear again. Even if I do nothing to the style screen. The styles name for this text that I am copying over matches the style name of the problem text and does show as bulleted on the styles dialog screen. I have, to my knowledge, removed any manual formatting from the problem area prior to copying over the styles I have spent hours on this and cannot understand what I am doing wrong. Any suggestions? Thank you |
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