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Why bullet precedes line numbers?
Using MSWord 2000, when I turn on line numbering [1], the
line numbers are preceded by a bullet. The bullets appear both on the screen and when the document is printed. When the same document file is viewed using MSWord 2003, the bullet prefixes are not there. (Good.) Any idea why the bullet prefix appears when using MSWord 2000? More importantly, any idea how to get rid of the bullet prefixes when using MSWord 2002? I am not sure the bullets were always there. I was surprised when I noticed them only recently. I might have overlooked them before. But I think I would have noticed them if they had been there earlier. So it is possible that I did something advertently that enabled the bullet prefixes. I am hoping there is an option to disable them. ----- [1] Line numbering is enable by going to File - Page Setup - Layout and selecting Add Line Numbering and Continuous. |
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Try this:
http://www.officearticles.com/word/h...osoft_word.htm ************ Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com wrote in message oups.com... Using MSWord 2000, when I turn on line numbering [1], the line numbers are preceded by a bullet. The bullets appear both on the screen and when the document is printed. When the same document file is viewed using MSWord 2003, the bullet prefixes are not there. (Good.) Any idea why the bullet prefix appears when using MSWord 2000? More importantly, any idea how to get rid of the bullet prefixes when using MSWord 2002? I am not sure the bullets were always there. I was surprised when I noticed them only recently. I might have overlooked them before. But I think I would have noticed them if they had been there earlier. So it is possible that I did something advertently that enabled the bullet prefixes. I am hoping there is an option to disable them. ----- [1] Line numbering is enable by going to File - Page Setup - Layout and selecting Add Line Numbering and Continuous. |
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Anne Troy wrote:
Try this: http://www.officearticles.com/word/h...osoft_word.htm Thanks for the response. But I think you misunderstood. I am not talking about numbered paragraphs. I am talking about line numbers, which are enabled under Page Setup - Layout. Read the footnote in my original posting. There is no reason I can think of why bullets (dot style) should precede line numbers. I have never seen them before. I cannot see any way to enable/disable them -- not under Page Setup - Layout, anyway. More noteworthy, I do not see them when the doc file is viewed with one version of MSWord (2003). I see them only when the same doc file viewed with an older version of MSWord (2002) -- the version of MSWord used to create and modify the doc file, by the way. I mentioned that in my original posting. |
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Have you tried to repair the Word/Office installation? (For a recent
discussion, see the thread whose subject is "Line Numbers Have Unwanted Paragraph Numbers" in this newsgroup.) -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP wrote in message oups.com... Anne Troy wrote: Try this: http://www.officearticles.com/word/h...osoft_word.htm Thanks for the response. But I think you misunderstood. I am not talking about numbered paragraphs. I am talking about line numbers, which are enabled under Page Setup - Layout. Read the footnote in my original posting. There is no reason I can think of why bullets (dot style) should precede line numbers. I have never seen them before. I cannot see any way to enable/disable them -- not under Page Setup - Layout, anyway. More noteworthy, I do not see them when the doc file is viewed with one version of MSWord (2003). I see them only when the same doc file viewed with an older version of MSWord (2002) -- the version of MSWord used to create and modify the doc file, by the way. I mentioned that in my original posting. |
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Stefan Blom wrote:
Have you tried to repair the Word/Office installation? (For a recent discussion, see the thread whose subject is "Line Numbers Have Unwanted Paragraph Numbers" in this newsgroup.) Thanks for the pointer. I read the thread, and I agree that the description does seem similar to my situation, albeit I have bullets, not paragraph numbers. I am eager to try it. The last posting in the thread said that doing a "repair Office" installation remedied the problem. I do not know how to do that. Can you provide more specific instructions? I found a KB article on how to repair Office 2003. Will that work for Office (Word) 2000? |
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Can you provide more specific instructions? I found a KB article on how to repair Office 2003. Will that work for Office (Word) 2000? Oops! I pushed Post instead of Cancel. I decided I will simply look at the system with the problem to see if I can figure this out for myself. (I am not near that system at the moment.) Thanks again for the pointer. |
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Stefan Blom wrote:
Have you tried to repair the Word/Office installation? (For a recent discussion, see the thread whose subject is "Line Numbers Have Unwanted Paragraph Numbers" in this newsgroup.) I wrote: Thanks for the pointer. [....] I am eager to try it. Fortunately or unfortunately, the problem went away on its own. No idea what action caused the self-correction. Stefan, do you have any idea what is the root cause of the problem? I'm just curious. Of course, if the problem reappears, we will try the "repair Office" solution. Thanks again for the pointer. |
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Fortunately or unfortunately, the problem went away on its own. No idea what action caused the self-correction. This is good news -- but strange. :-) Stefan, do you have any idea what is the root cause of the problem? I'm just curious. No, I have no idea what causes it, unfortunately. :-( I'm sure someone will be able to figure it out, eventually. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP |
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To repair the Word installation, just click Detect and Repair on the
Help menu. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP wrote in message oups.com... I wrote: Can you provide more specific instructions? I found a KB article on how to repair Office 2003. Will that work for Office (Word) 2000? Oops! I pushed Post instead of Cancel. I decided I will simply look at the system with the problem to see if I can figure this out for myself. (I am not near that system at the moment.) Thanks again for the pointer. |
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