[Gary[_3_]]

Thans for your help, Suzanne.

I -think- I've decided to live with blue bullets to save time as every
section and sub-section will be mapped with cross-references. So I now have
a paragraph style for the bullet list and a character style for inside other
paragraphs. I'm sure tomorrow I'll change my mind ... again.

I'll be curious to see if anyone even notices that the bullets are blue (or
thinks it odd that they're blue).

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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You can remove the formatting from just the paragraph mark, but I find
Word's "helpful" behavior in this case very annoying. No matter how
carefully you select everything *but* the paragraph mark, and regardless
of your Tools | Options | Edit settings wrt selection, Word still includes
the paragraph mark if you select text at the end of a paragraph.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Gary" wrote in message
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Thanks for the reply. I was afraid of that.

Thankfully, you can set the REF field to preserve its format when you
update so (so far) the format has "stuck" after updating (F9).

The other annoying thing is that if the cross-reference is the entire
paragraph (such as when I'm mapping a chapter and have all of the Heading
1 titles in a bullet list) if I apply the character format to just the
text (and don't include the paragraph mark) it still formats the
paragraph and my bullets turn blue. So I have to add a dummy character at
the end of each bullet item, format the cross-reference text, and then
delete the dummy character.