Using Microsoft Office Document Scanning, I OCRd a letter and sent it on to
Word. For some reason the document thought it was HTML, but ok, I saved it as
..doc and proceeded. The usual glitches from OCR were easy to cope with. But
Numbering and Bulleting would not cooperate. When I highlighted a paragraph and
invoked numbering from the toolbar the entire document was numbered. Ctrl-Z-ing
back from there found the paragraph numbered correctly. But at the next instance
the same thing happened. Finally threw up my hands and gave up. Later it
occurred to me to copy the whole thing to Windows Clipboard and drop it in a new
document, but I haven't tried it yet.

I could not find a setting that controls whether formatting applies to a
selection or to the whole document. Is there one?

Can I impose my normal template on a document?

Thanks,

rs

See http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Format...eformatted.htm.

For outline numbering 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.)

Essentially, for anything at all complex or that will be heavily edited, do
_not_ use numbering or bullets from the toolbar!
--

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!
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"TCEBob" tcebobatgwidotnet wrote in message
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Using Microsoft Office Document Scanning, I OCRd a letter and sent it on
to Word. For some reason the document thought it was HTML, but ok, I saved
it as .doc and proceeded. The usual glitches from OCR were easy to cope
with. But Numbering and Bulleting would not cooperate. When I highlighted
a paragraph and invoked numbering from the toolbar the entire document was
numbered. Ctrl-Z-ing back from there found the paragraph numbered
correctly. But at the next instance the same thing happened. Finally threw
up my hands and gave up. Later it occurred to me to copy the whole thing
to Windows Clipboard and drop it in a new document, but I haven't tried it
yet.

I could not find a setting that controls whether formatting applies to a
selection or to the whole document. Is there one?

Can I impose my normal template on a document?

Thanks,

rs

Thank you.

rs

"Charles Kenyon" wrote in message
...
See http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Format...eformatted.htm.

For outline numbering 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.)

Essentially, for anything at all complex or that will be heavily edited, do
_not_ use numbering or bullets from the toolbar!
--

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!
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"TCEBob" tcebobatgwidotnet wrote in message
...
Using Microsoft Office Document Scanning, I OCRd a letter and sent it on to
Word. For some reason the document thought it was HTML, but ok, I saved it as
.doc and proceeded. The usual glitches from OCR were easy to cope with. But
Numbering and Bulleting would not cooperate. When I highlighted a paragraph
and invoked numbering from the toolbar the entire document was numbered.
Ctrl-Z-ing back from there found the paragraph numbered correctly. But at the
next instance the same thing happened. Finally threw up my hands and gave up.
Later it occurred to me to copy the whole thing to Windows Clipboard and drop
it in a new document, but I haven't tried it yet.

I could not find a setting that controls whether formatting applies to a
selection or to the whole document. Is there one?

Can I impose my normal template on a document?

Thanks,

rs

Charles,

Those are great references! I will set aside time later to go through in detail.
I did not know there was a .numbering group, so will check it there, too.

rs

"Charles Kenyon" wrote in message
...
See http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Format...eformatted.htm.

For outline numbering 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.)

Essentially, for anything at all complex or that will be heavily edited, do
_not_ use numbering or bullets from the toolbar!
--

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!
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"TCEBob" tcebobatgwidotnet wrote in message
...
Using Microsoft Office Document Scanning, I OCRd a letter and sent it on to
Word. For some reason the document thought it was HTML, but ok, I saved it as
.doc and proceeded. The usual glitches from OCR were easy to cope with. But
Numbering and Bulleting would not cooperate. When I highlighted a paragraph
and invoked numbering from the toolbar the entire document was numbered.
Ctrl-Z-ing back from there found the paragraph numbered correctly. But at the
next instance the same thing happened. Finally threw up my hands and gave up.
Later it occurred to me to copy the whole thing to Windows Clipboard and drop
it in a new document, but I haven't tried it yet.

I could not find a setting that controls whether formatting applies to a
selection or to the whole document. Is there one?

Can I impose my normal template on a document?

Thanks,

rs