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Bullets misbehaving!
Hi
Does anyone know what's going on with my bullets? Each time I return, a number bullet is normally created on the next line down. Now, for some reason, when I return a line space is occurring before the the next number bullet. It's almost as if double line space has been switched on (it hasn't). I can't see why this is happening. Does anyone else? -- Many thanks JD |
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See: How to create numbered headings or outline numbering in your Word
document http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numb...Numbering.html. (For bullets see http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/bull...olbullets.html, the subject is related.) This is based on ... Word's Numbering Explained http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Number...gExplained.htm -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Jackie D" wrote in message ... Hi Does anyone know what's going on with my bullets? Each time I return, a number bullet is normally created on the next line down. Now, for some reason, when I return a line space is occurring before the the next number bullet. It's almost as if double line space has been switched on (it hasn't). I can't see why this is happening. Does anyone else? -- Many thanks JD |
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Thanks Charles. I'll take a look
-- Many thanks JD "Charles Kenyon" wrote: See: How to create numbered headings or outline numbering in your Word document http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numb...Numbering.html. (For bullets see http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/bull...olbullets.html, the subject is related.) This is based on ... Word's Numbering Explained http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Number...gExplained.htm -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Jackie D" wrote in message ... Hi Does anyone know what's going on with my bullets? Each time I return, a number bullet is normally created on the next line down. Now, for some reason, when I return a line space is occurring before the the next number bullet. It's almost as if double line space has been switched on (it hasn't). I can't see why this is happening. Does anyone else? -- Many thanks JD |
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Bullets misbehaving!
JD, I know exactly what you mean, and this has bugged me since I moved up to
Word 2003. I was just looking through the forums for an answer and all I could find was your question. Here's what I know: (turn on display of hidden characters to make it obvious): If the cursor is resting (blinking) on a bullet that's blank (no text on that line, just a hard return) and I press the return/enter key, that bullet changes to a normal (non-bulleted) line and the new line I've created is also a normal (non-bulleted) line with the cursor resting at the start of that new line. This happens whether I start on the last bullet of a set or I start on an empty bullet in the middle of a set of bullets. Note that this is not an issue of space before or after paragraphs. I'm quite familiar with that option and use it a lot in my work. As I said, turning on display of hard returns will make the behavior quite clear. Now frankly, I find this irritating. I'm used to creating a number of extra bullets within a set and then populating them with text in some order other than first, second, third, etc. I know that I can select the bullets that were automatically converted to normal paragraphs and convert them back, but that does seem excessive. This was not an issue in Office 2000. I thought there would be a checkbox somewhere in the style and formatting options but so far I've been unable to find one that affects this behavior. Maybe someone else knows where to find it . . . Regards, Bryan |
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Bullets misbehaving!
This was set up as a way for clueless users (which you obviously are not) to
"get out of" bullets. If you will type at least a single space after the bullet before pressing Enter, the bullet will be retained. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Bryan Saint Germain" wrote in message ... JD, I know exactly what you mean, and this has bugged me since I moved up to Word 2003. I was just looking through the forums for an answer and all I could find was your question. Here's what I know: (turn on display of hidden characters to make it obvious): If the cursor is resting (blinking) on a bullet that's blank (no text on that line, just a hard return) and I press the return/enter key, that bullet changes to a normal (non-bulleted) line and the new line I've created is also a normal (non-bulleted) line with the cursor resting at the start of that new line. This happens whether I start on the last bullet of a set or I start on an empty bullet in the middle of a set of bullets. Note that this is not an issue of space before or after paragraphs. I'm quite familiar with that option and use it a lot in my work. As I said, turning on display of hard returns will make the behavior quite clear. Now frankly, I find this irritating. I'm used to creating a number of extra bullets within a set and then populating them with text in some order other than first, second, third, etc. I know that I can select the bullets that were automatically converted to normal paragraphs and convert them back, but that does seem excessive. This was not an issue in Office 2000. I thought there would be a checkbox somewhere in the style and formatting options but so far I've been unable to find one that affects this behavior. Maybe someone else knows where to find it . . . Regards, Bryan |
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Does your bulleted style have Space Before or After?
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jackie D" wrote in message ... Hi Does anyone know what's going on with my bullets? Each time I return, a number bullet is normally created on the next line down. Now, for some reason, when I return a line space is occurring before the the next number bullet. It's almost as if double line space has been switched on (it hasn't). I can't see why this is happening. Does anyone else? -- Many thanks JD |
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Hi Suzanne
No there are no spaces before or after the bullet. The parameters for the bullets working correctly are identical to the misbehaving bullets. -- Many thanks JD "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Does your bulleted style have Space Before or After? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jackie D" wrote in message ... Hi Does anyone know what's going on with my bullets? Each time I return, a number bullet is normally created on the next line down. Now, for some reason, when I return a line space is occurring before the the next number bullet. It's almost as if double line space has been switched on (it hasn't). I can't see why this is happening. Does anyone else? -- Many thanks JD |
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No, I'm talking about paragraph formatting. Go to Format | Paragraph and see
if there is a non-zero number in the Spacing: Before/After box. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jackie D" wrote in message ... Hi Suzanne No there are no spaces before or after the bullet. The parameters for the bullets working correctly are identical to the misbehaving bullets. -- Many thanks JD "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Does your bulleted style have Space Before or After? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jackie D" wrote in message ... Hi Does anyone know what's going on with my bullets? Each time I return, a number bullet is normally created on the next line down. Now, for some reason, when I return a line space is occurring before the the next number bullet. It's almost as if double line space has been switched on (it hasn't). I can't see why this is happening. Does anyone else? -- Many thanks JD |
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Hi
I'm talking about the same thing! The spaces before and after are set to zero. It;'s why I'm so baffled... -- Many thanks JD "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: No, I'm talking about paragraph formatting. Go to Format | Paragraph and see if there is a non-zero number in the Spacing: Before/After box. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jackie D" wrote in message ... Hi Suzanne No there are no spaces before or after the bullet. The parameters for the bullets working correctly are identical to the misbehaving bullets. -- Many thanks JD "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Does your bulleted style have Space Before or After? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jackie D" wrote in message ... Hi Does anyone know what's going on with my bullets? Each time I return, a number bullet is normally created on the next line down. Now, for some reason, when I return a line space is occurring before the the next number bullet. It's almost as if double line space has been switched on (it hasn't). I can't see why this is happening. Does anyone else? -- Many thanks JD |
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Grasping at straws here, but check the Layout tab of Page Setup and make
sure the vertical alignment is set to Top. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jackie D" wrote in message ... Hi I'm talking about the same thing! The spaces before and after are set to zero. It;'s why I'm so baffled... -- Many thanks JD "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: No, I'm talking about paragraph formatting. Go to Format | Paragraph and see if there is a non-zero number in the Spacing: Before/After box. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jackie D" wrote in message ... Hi Suzanne No there are no spaces before or after the bullet. The parameters for the bullets working correctly are identical to the misbehaving bullets. -- Many thanks JD "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Does your bulleted style have Space Before or After? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jackie D" wrote in message ... Hi Does anyone know what's going on with my bullets? Each time I return, a number bullet is normally created on the next line down. Now, for some reason, when I return a line space is occurring before the the next number bullet. It's almost as if double line space has been switched on (it hasn't). I can't see why this is happening. Does anyone else? -- Many thanks JD |
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