[KiranK]

I have office 2007 student edition. I recently had to reformat my laptop
because of a glitch.

Since I have reinstalled office I am having trouble with word.

I can create a bullet but if I try to hit backspace to delete it it does not
work.
If I have a bullet and want to make another enter does not work until the
first bullet has at least one letter of text next to it.

PLEASE HELP I AM A STUDENT AND NEED BULLETS
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Thanks for the help!
Have a great day

[CyberTaz]

As to your first point you'll have to be a bit more specific about how
you're "creating a bullet" as well as what "does not work" means to you.
Please describe exactly how you're going about it & what is/isn't happening
contrary to your expectations.

The second issue is a matter of how the automatic bullets feature is
designed to work. If you type no content in the bulleted paragraph pressing
Enter turns the bullets off. AFAIK there is no setting to prevent that. If
you want to have a series of bulleted empty paragraphs type them instead of
attempting to use the automatic feature. Hold Alt while typing 0149 [numeric
keypad], assign a keyboard shortcut to the bullet character, or create your
own paragraph style with the bullet formatting included.

HTH |:)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac


On 10/26/08 1:26 PM, in article
, "KiranK"
wrote:

I have office 2007 student edition. I recently had to reformat my laptop
because of a glitch.

Since I have reinstalled office I am having trouble with word.

I can create a bullet but if I try to hit backspace to delete it it does not
work.
If I have a bullet and want to make another enter does not work until the
first bullet has at least one letter of text next to it.

PLEASE HELP I AM A STUDENT AND NEED BULLETS

[KiranK]

In my word document I press bullet button in the paragraph part of the
ribbon. A bullet shows up. But then l press backspace because I either dont
need it or I misplaced it, or any other reason. But the backspace does not do
anything, meaning the bullet doesnt go away and the cursor line stays where
it is. I cannot delete bullets at all with backspace even ones that have been
there longer lets say at the beginning of the doc and were created when I
could actually backspace on a bullet.

I did not have this problem ever before. I am a student so I am constantly
using bullets. I recently reformat my computer and when I reinstalled word
using only the Product Key this started happening. Someone told me that it
may be because I didnt use the CD and that I should uninstall and then
install with the word cd and product key, I did that but it still doesnt
work. A tech person at school had me delete the 'normal' file. I think it was
called normal.docm or something like that, she said that it would recreate
itself and maybe the 'normal' layout setting had problems. This didnt fix
anything.

Last week I actually couldnt backspace on text either. Like if i had a
paragraph chunck of text (with no bullets or anything) and if i pressed enter
to send something down a line I couldnt bring it back up afterwards. However,
this problem went away when I played with the ruler at the top I think.

In options 'typing replaces selected text is selected.

Thanks for your help






--
Thanks for the help!
Have a great day


"CyberTaz" wrote:

As to your first point you'll have to be a bit more specific about how
you're "creating a bullet" as well as what "does not work" means to you.
Please describe exactly how you're going about it & what is/isn't happening
contrary to your expectations.

The second issue is a matter of how the automatic bullets feature is
designed to work. If you type no content in the bulleted paragraph pressing
Enter turns the bullets off. AFAIK there is no setting to prevent that. If
you want to have a series of bulleted empty paragraphs type them instead of
attempting to use the automatic feature. Hold Alt while typing 0149 [numeric
keypad], assign a keyboard shortcut to the bullet character, or create your
own paragraph style with the bullet formatting included.

HTH |:)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac


On 10/26/08 1:26 PM, in article
, "KiranK"
wrote:

I have office 2007 student edition. I recently had to reformat my laptop
because of a glitch.

Since I have reinstalled office I am having trouble with word.

I can create a bullet but if I try to hit backspace to delete it it does not
work.
If I have a bullet and want to make another enter does not work until the
first bullet has at least one letter of text next to it.

PLEASE HELP I AM A STUDENT AND NEED BULLETS