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Bullets and Numbering
I have a document I'm typing, and when I make changes to an existing bullet
or numbered line, it changes the previous bullets or numbered list. I simply want to be able to change a line without it impacting the formatting of ALL or ANY formatting before or after the line I'm trying to modify. HELP!!! |
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Bullets and Numbering
See: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...eformatted.htm
-- Carol A. Bratt, MCP "M. Edghill" wrote: I have a document I'm typing, and when I make changes to an existing bullet or numbered line, it changes the previous bullets or numbered list. I simply want to be able to change a line without it impacting the formatting of ALL or ANY formatting before or after the line I'm trying to modify. HELP!!! |
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Bullets and Numbering
I've already done this and it's still not working.
"Carol" wrote in message ... See: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...eformatted.htm -- Carol A. Bratt, MCP "M. Edghill" wrote: I have a document I'm typing, and when I make changes to an existing bullet or numbered line, it changes the previous bullets or numbered list. I simply want to be able to change a line without it impacting the formatting of ALL or ANY formatting before or after the line I'm trying to modify. HELP!!! |
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Bullets and Numbering
Any chance I could see the document that you're experiencing the problem with?
-- Carol A. Bratt, MCP "M. Edghill" wrote: I've already done this and it's still not working. "Carol" wrote in message ... See: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...eformatted.htm -- Carol A. Bratt, MCP "M. Edghill" wrote: I have a document I'm typing, and when I make changes to an existing bullet or numbered line, it changes the previous bullets or numbered list. I simply want to be able to change a line without it impacting the formatting of ALL or ANY formatting before or after the line I'm trying to modify. HELP!!! |
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You need to do two things:
The first is to turn off "Automatically update" in the Style, so that you can make a change to the paragraph without affecting other paragraphs formatted with the same style. The second is to understand that by default there is only "one" bulleted or numbered list in a document for each paragraph style. So if you have six paragraphs: 1 para 2 para 3 para Body text Body text 4 para 5 para 6 para All the "para" paragraphs above are the same numbered list. If you change one, you change all. You need to first apply a different style to the ones you want to change. So: 1 Style First 2 Style First 3 Style First Body text Body text 4 Second Style 5 Second Style 6 Second Style Word uses the styles to tell it that these two lists are independent of each other. You can change one without changing the other. To change styles, make sure that you use FormatStyles and Formatting...Modify... . That way, you are changing the style definition itself, not just the local paragraph. Which means that your change will correctly flow through the document to all paragraphs using that style. Cheers On 24/8/06 1:05 AM, in article , "M. Edghill" wrote: I have a document I'm typing, and when I make changes to an existing bullet or numbered line, it changes the previous bullets or numbered list. I simply want to be able to change a line without it impacting the formatting of ALL or ANY formatting before or after the line I'm trying to modify. HELP!!! -- Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410 |
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