Coming back to Michael's question, I suggest a different approach.
You can use a separate style for the comments. For notes, I use a
Text_for_Notes style, with a different font color, and paragraph
settings that discriminate from the body text, including a box around
it. The Text_for_Notes also is slightly indented (with left and right
indenting) and has surrounding space settings. I also have given it 5%
grey shade. In this way it stands out clearly from the body text, and
if you use it for a single purpose ("notes") I think the distinctive
style settings are a label in its own right, and the word "Note" can be
skipped. In case it must, you can of course type the word "Note" as a
heading in the box, making it bold. Obviously, you can define this
"Text_for_Notes" without a frame, formatting it to your taste.
Alternatively, you can make a table with the appropriate settings and
formatting. By way of example, make two columns and split the first
horizontally. In the left upper cell place a pictogram, eg an
exclamation mark in a triangle, in the left lower cell put "Note". The
right cell can be used to contain your text. Just c/p this empty
"table" to a separate document for future use. Everytime you need it,
c/p in yr text document and type the text in the right cell. FWIW, you
can make variants, like "warning", "idea", or whatever you like, with
different colors, settings, pictos. Also, you may like to line the
first two cell to be positioned in the left margin so they stand out
even more - this can be useful in a user manual for instance.
I hope this makes sense and you can use the concept behind it,
Michael.
Suzanne S. Barnhill;2242561 Wrote:
I haven't had that experience, but I do modify the numbering using the
Outline Numbered tab of the Numbering dialog in accordance with
Shauna's
principles (always go in through the Level 1 style, etc.).
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"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message
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I don't use the bulleted/numbered styles either... they're far too
fragile
in long documents.
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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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I don't ever use the "built-in bullets and numbering" if by that you
mean
bullets or numbering applied by using the Bullets or Numbering
buttons.--
I--
use only bulleted/numbered styles (List Bullet, List Number, etc.),
modified
as necessary.
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I've just about given up using Word's built-in bullets and
numbering---
for--
all-
but the simplest needs. The feature is simply too fragile, and it
has---
not---
matured over time.
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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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After reading Graham's comment that "text bullets" don't work in
Word
2007,
I can begin to see the reason for your elaborate workaround of---
"clever--
use-
of white coloring for the number font and changing the indents." In
earlier
versions, you can make a "numbered" list with no numbering, just
the-
text.-
I
use this for Q&A (see
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/QandA.htm).
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"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message
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Only in numbered and bulleted lists. Don't know which version of---
Word---
you're
using, but in the AutoCorrect options dialog box, click the---
AutoFormat--
as-
You Type tab, and under the Automatically as you type options, note
the
"Format beginning of list item like the one before it" option.
This-
does-
what you want, but only in numbered/bulleted lists.
By clever use of white coloring for the number font and changing
the
indents, you can make a list look like normal text. But, there
are---
no---
"stability" guarantees.
But, personally, I find using Word's list formatting to be rather
fragile,
and not worth the effort.
What I do for Notes... is use an AutoText shortcut. I preformat my-
note,-
including the word Note in bold and any punctuation that follows
the
word,
with a space (not bold) following the word Note so that when I type
there,
it's not bold; then format the note as I want it to appear (for my
purposes,
I format using a style that include shading and left/right-
indentation).-
Then, when I want a note, I type the word note and press F3.
This---
can---
also
be done using an AutoCorrect entry, but if you go that route,
I'd---
use--
an-
abbreviation as the name rather than an actual word that gets
used---
in---
other
contexts.
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"Michael_Randall" wrote---
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message ...
Hello,
I have a document that I created using all styles and
formatting.---
I---
would
like to create a "note" style that will automatically bold the---
word---
Note
at
the beginning of the sentence when I apply the style to it.
Additionally,
it
would be great to be able to type a sentence and when I apply the-
note-
style,
the word "NOTE" appears in front of the sentence.
Is this possible?
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Michael Randall
Technical Writer
Trend Micro, Nanjing China
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