Well, you can customize the type of bullet, but, you are right: you are not
allowed to (permanently) change the indentation. (Note, however, that this
didn't work reliably in recent versions, either.)
A method that does allow you to customize the indentation is to apply bullet
formatting via a list style. You can create a list style via Home tab |
Multilevel List | Define New List Style. Just specify a bullet character for
the first level of "numbering." To change the indentation, you can click the
Increase Indent / Decrease Indent buttons in the dialog box or click the
Format button and then click Numbering to set specific options.
Any list style created can be (re-)applied to text, in the current document,
via Home tab | Multilevel List (look under the "List Styles" heading).
Note also that you can copy a list style, just like any other style, to a
different document or template.
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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP
"Hayley" wrote:
Thanks Stefan - but that still does not fix the bullet button on the ribbon
toolbar. i.e the short cut Ctrl+Shift+L works a treat but getting our (non
keyboard) staff to use that instead of the bullet button (which they have
uses since the beginning of time) - well lets just not go there... 
In Word 2003 you could customise the bullet (bullets and
numbering/customise) then set the tab and indent. Once Word was close down
and reopened it would remember this setting.
In Word 2007 you can Define New Bullet but the only thing you can set is the
alignment! Surely this can be modified somewhere
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Hayley
"Stefan Blom" wrote:
Note that List Bullet is a built-in style, so it is definitely available in
the Normal template. In any document, you can press Ctrl+Shift+L to apply
List Bullet to text.
Note also that you can modify the List Bullet style to suit your needs. To
change the indentation, just right-click a paragraph in this style, and
choose Adjust List Indent from the context menu. Change other settings, such
as font and size, as desired, by formatting the paragraph directly. Then
right-click again and click Style | Update List Bullet to Match Selection.
To transfer the changes to the attached template, right-click the style name
in the Styles pane (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S), click Modify. (If you can't see the
style name in the list of styles, you can click the Manage Styles button and
locate the style on the Edit tab instead.) In the dialog box, click the "New
documents based on this template" option, and then click OK.
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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP
"Hayley" wrote in message
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This works in the current document but i would like to modify the
normal.dotx. The bullet button on the ribbon bar is set to list paragraph
which sets the bullet at indent 0.63 and hanging of 0.63.
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Hayley
"Stefan Blom" wrote:
Apply the built-in List Bullet style (which is defined with no left
indent)
to text: Select the desired paragraphs, and then press Ctrl+Shift+S to
display the Apply Styles pane. Type "List Bullet," and then click Apply.
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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP
"Hayley" wrote in message
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Is it possible to set the default bullet to be left aligned rather than
indented. I can modify on the open document but when i close and open
Word
again it has defaulted back. I have modified the normal.dotx styles but
with
the same problems. Please help this small item is driving the company
nuts.
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Hayley