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Plus and minus signs in outline view
I know the plus sign indicates there is subsumed text below it and the minus
sign means there isn't - or shouldn't be any subsumed text. Trouble is - it sometimes does ie a minus shows for a heading that has subordinate text below it. I can live with it - but why is it happening and is there any way to prevent it from happening? |
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What versions of Word are you using?
Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Co-author of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Steve" wrote in message ... I know the plus sign indicates there is subsumed text below it and the minus sign means there isn't - or shouldn't be any subsumed text. Trouble is - it sometimes does ie a minus shows for a heading that has subordinate text below it. I can live with it - but why is it happening and is there any way to prevent it from happening? |
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Hi Beth
I'm using Word 2003. The particular document is very long (about 100,000 words). PS the collapse and expand functions still work fine with all headings - just that some show with a minus sign when they should show a plus sign "Beth Melton" wrote: What versions of Word are you using? Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Co-author of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Steve" wrote in message ... I know the plus sign indicates there is subsumed text below it and the minus sign means there isn't - or shouldn't be any subsumed text. Trouble is - it sometimes does ie a minus shows for a heading that has subordinate text below it. I can live with it - but why is it happening and is there any way to prevent it from happening? |
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Typically when I've see this happen there's an empty paragraph below the
heading that is formatted with a heading style. If empty paragraphs were used to create "space" between paragraphs then more than likely this is what you are encountering. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Co-author of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Steve" wrote in message ... Hi Beth I'm using Word 2003. The particular document is very long (about 100,000 words). PS the collapse and expand functions still work fine with all headings - just that some show with a minus sign when they should show a plus sign "Beth Melton" wrote: What versions of Word are you using? "Steve" wrote in message ... I know the plus sign indicates there is subsumed text below it and the minus sign means there isn't - or shouldn't be any subsumed text. Trouble is - it sometimes does ie a minus shows for a heading that has subordinate text below it. I can live with it - but why is it happening and is there any way to prevent it from happening? |
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Thanks for that - although the empty paragraph wasn't the specific cause, you
put me on the write track of looking at the heading properties which happened to read as follows (I then changed it to just 'heading 2' and it was fine Heading 2 + (Latin) Arial, (Asian) Arial Unicode MS, 12 pt, Italic, Kern at 1... "Beth Melton" wrote: Typically when I've see this happen there's an empty paragraph below the heading that is formatted with a heading style. If empty paragraphs were used to create "space" between paragraphs then more than likely this is what you are encountering. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Co-author of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Steve" wrote in message ... Hi Beth I'm using Word 2003. The particular document is very long (about 100,000 words). PS the collapse and expand functions still work fine with all headings - just that some show with a minus sign when they should show a plus sign "Beth Melton" wrote: What versions of Word are you using? "Steve" wrote in message ... I know the plus sign indicates there is subsumed text below it and the minus sign means there isn't - or shouldn't be any subsumed text. Trouble is - it sometimes does ie a minus shows for a heading that has subordinate text below it. I can live with it - but why is it happening and is there any way to prevent it from happening? |
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Ah! Yes, that would do it too. Glad to hear you have the issue resolved. :-)
Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Co-author of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Steve" wrote in message ... Thanks for that - although the empty paragraph wasn't the specific cause, you put me on the write track of looking at the heading properties which happened to read as follows (I then changed it to just 'heading 2' and it was fine Heading 2 + (Latin) Arial, (Asian) Arial Unicode MS, 12 pt, Italic, Kern at 1... "Beth Melton" wrote: Typically when I've see this happen there's an empty paragraph below the heading that is formatted with a heading style. If empty paragraphs were used to create "space" between paragraphs then more than likely this is what you are encountering. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Co-author of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Steve" wrote in message ... Hi Beth I'm using Word 2003. The particular document is very long (about 100,000 words). PS the collapse and expand functions still work fine with all headings - just that some show with a minus sign when they should show a plus sign "Beth Melton" wrote: What versions of Word are you using? "Steve" wrote in message ... I know the plus sign indicates there is subsumed text below it and the minus sign means there isn't - or shouldn't be any subsumed text. Trouble is - it sometimes does ie a minus shows for a heading that has subordinate text below it. I can live with it - but why is it happening and is there any way to prevent it from happening? |
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