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Terry Farrell Terry Farrell is offline
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Default No leading for list inside table (Word 2007)

Well they regularly do use the same list non-contiguously throughout a
document. It isn't so much that this is happening across columns in a table,
it happens throughout a document unless you change lists. A simple way to
look at this is if you are using a SEQ field to number through a document:
if you don't change the SEQname, then the number continues from where it
left off. Lists work in a similar way, which once you know is quite obvious.
Shauna Kelly has some great information on numbering and bullets at
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/

Terry

"Sesquipedalian Sam" wrote in message
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On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:36:05 -0000, "Terry Farrell"
wrote:

You need to use a different list style for the second column because Word
sees the list in the second column as a continuation of the List started
in
the first column. Intuitively, it suppresses the Space Before because
'Don't
add space between paragraphs of the same style' is checked. So you need to
create a different List Style for Column 2, even though it will use
identical formatting.

That's the way lists work.


OK, thanks.

It's too bad the Word developers chose such an insipid, pedestrian,
thoughtless implementation. I would be surprised if one user in a
thousand would want lists to "continue" across the rows in a table.
(sigh)