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multilevel lists don't work
after selecting a multi-level list style, the first level is created on my
document. After typing in some text and then hitting enter, the next level does not appear, like it would in any numbered or bulleted list. What I get is just normal text. No numbers, letters or any component of the list tree. No matter what I do, I can't get the list format to go beyond its first line. |
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multilevel lists don't work
Perhaps you chose a list format including "Heading 1," "Heading 2," etc.? If
so, the numbering is tied to those styles. To (re)apply it, apply the appropriate style. Alternatively, you should be able to use Ctrl+Shift+Left/Right arrow to promote and demote numbering/heading levels. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Mike" Mike @discussions.microsoft.com wrote in message ... after selecting a multi-level list style, the first level is created on my document. After typing in some text and then hitting enter, the next level does not appear, like it would in any numbered or bulleted list. What I get is just normal text. No numbers, letters or any component of the list tree. No matter what I do, I can't get the list format to go beyond its first line. |
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Correction: The keyboard shortcuts are Alt+Shift+Left (Right) arrow.
-- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... Perhaps you chose a list format including "Heading 1," "Heading 2," etc.? If so, the numbering is tied to those styles. To (re)apply it, apply the appropriate style. Alternatively, you should be able to use Ctrl+Shift+Left/Right arrow to promote and demote numbering/heading levels. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Mike" Mike @discussions.microsoft.com wrote in message ... after selecting a multi-level list style, the first level is created on my document. After typing in some text and then hitting enter, the next level does not appear, like it would in any numbered or bulleted list. What I get is just normal text. No numbers, letters or any component of the list tree. No matter what I do, I can't get the list format to go beyond its first line. |
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I tried it from the Multilevel List Practice Page on the web. Pressing enter
changes to the next line and does not stay in the list. Help. "Stefan Blom" wrote: Perhaps you chose a list format including "Heading 1," "Heading 2," etc.? If so, the numbering is tied to those styles. To (re)apply it, apply the appropriate style. Alternatively, you should be able to use Ctrl+Shift+Left/Right arrow to promote and demote numbering/heading levels. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP |
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What is the "Multilevel List Practice Page"?
If numbering was linked to paragraph styles, the "Style for following paragraph" setting will affect numbering, as you type in numbered paragraphs. Just apply the appropriate style when you need a certain numbering level. Alternatively, change the "Style for following paragraph" as desired. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Keith L" wrote in message ... I tried it from the Multilevel List Practice Page on the web. Pressing enter changes to the next line and does not stay in the list. Help. "Stefan Blom" wrote: Perhaps you chose a list format including "Heading 1," "Heading 2," etc.? If so, the numbering is tied to those styles. To (re)apply it, apply the appropriate style. Alternatively, you should be able to use Ctrl+Shift+Left/Right arrow to promote and demote numbering/heading levels. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP |
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multilevel lists don't work
Office 2007 has an Online training session. When you do the training session
for lists, it has a session for multilevel lists. It downloads a file to your computer to practice creating a Multilevel list using the planets as a sample. I t does not work as expected. When the level uses header styles, pressing enter after a line drops down a line and selects the normal style. Another user had the same problem. It is related to the Multilevel list using Headers as a level. The default action after a header when pressing enter is to go to the next line and change to the normal style. This kicks you out of a multilevel list. "Stefan Blom" wrote: What is the "Multilevel List Practice Page"? |
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Just reapply the appropriate heading style. Or change the "Style for
following paragraph" in the style definition. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Keith L" wrote in message ... Office 2007 has an Online training session. When you do the training session for lists, it has a session for multilevel lists. It downloads a file to your computer to practice creating a Multilevel list using the planets as a sample. I t does not work as expected. When the level uses header styles, pressing enter after a line drops down a line and selects the normal style. Another user had the same problem. It is related to the Multilevel list using Headers as a level. The default action after a header when pressing enter is to go to the next line and change to the normal style. This kicks you out of a multilevel list. "Stefan Blom" wrote: What is the "Multilevel List Practice Page"? |
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Keith, all you have to do to make your Headings styles chain from one to the
other (instead of reverting to Normal style on the next line) is to modify the style so that the "style for following paragraph" for Heading 1 is Heading 1 instead of Normal. Heading 2 should follow Heading 2, and so on. Caution, however: if you press Enter at the end of a number-styled line of text and then press Enter again before typing anything, your paragraph number "goes away; the next paragraph may still be styled as whatever number style you're using, but the numbers themselves can disappear. If that happens, just click on the style in the Style window and when the Modify style window opens, click on the box next to "Reapply the formatting of the style to the selection," and your number will come back. Using the Automatic lists function in Word does allow you to tab or shift+tab back and forth between the levels of your numbering, but automatic list numbers are not as stable as when you apply styles to each level of your numbered outline. And the only thing you surrender by using auto-numbered styles instead of the automatic lists function is that when you want to change to another level in your outline, you must click on the paragraph, then click on the appropriate style in your outline. But it's a small price to pay for an outline that's stable, no matter how long your document is. And with the Quick Styles sets sitting right on the Ribbon (under the Home tab), it's plenty convenient to move from one numbered style to the next. Cyndie Browning Tulsa, OK "Keith L" wrote: Office 2007 has an Online training session. When you do the training session for lists, it has a session for multilevel lists. It downloads a file to your computer to practice creating a Multilevel list using the planets as a sample. It does not work as expected. When the level uses header styles, pressing enter after a line drops down a line and selects the normal style. Another user had the same problem. It is related to the Multilevel list using Headers as a level. The default action after a header when pressing enter is to go to the next line and change to the normal style. This kicks you out of a multilevel list. |
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[...] the only thing you surrender by using auto-numbered
styles instead of the automatic lists function is that when you want to change to another level in your outline, you must click on the paragraph, then click on the appropriate style in your outline. Note that if the insertion point is in a paragraph to which you've applied a style, that is part of an outline, you should be able to use Alt+Shift+Left/Right arrow to promote/demote items in the list. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "gr8auntieokie" wrote in message ... Keith, all you have to do to make your Headings styles chain from one to the other (instead of reverting to Normal style on the next line) is to modify the style so that the "style for following paragraph" for Heading 1 is Heading 1 instead of Normal. Heading 2 should follow Heading 2, and so on. Caution, however: if you press Enter at the end of a number-styled line of text and then press Enter again before typing anything, your paragraph number "goes away; the next paragraph may still be styled as whatever number style you're using, but the numbers themselves can disappear. If that happens, just click on the style in the Style window and when the Modify style window opens, click on the box next to "Reapply the formatting of the style to the selection," and your number will come back. Using the Automatic lists function in Word does allow you to tab or shift+tab back and forth between the levels of your numbering, but automatic list numbers are not as stable as when you apply styles to each level of your numbered outline. And the only thing you surrender by using auto-numbered styles instead of the automatic lists function is that when you want to change to another level in your outline, you must click on the paragraph, then click on the appropriate style in your outline. But it's a small price to pay for an outline that's stable, no matter how long your document is. And with the Quick Styles sets sitting right on the Ribbon (under the Home tab), it's plenty convenient to move from one numbered style to the next. Cyndie Browning Tulsa, OK "Keith L" wrote: Office 2007 has an Online training session. When you do the training session for lists, it has a session for multilevel lists. It downloads a file to your computer to practice creating a Multilevel list using the planets as a sample. It does not work as expected. When the level uses header styles, pressing enter after a line drops down a line and selects the normal style. Another user had the same problem. It is related to the Multilevel list using Headers as a level. The default action after a header when pressing enter is to go to the next line and change to the normal style. This kicks you out of a multilevel list. |
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That's interesting. I can't get that keystroke to work on my computer (Word
2007). The Increase Indent and Decrease Indent buttons on the Ribbon (Home tab/Paragraph group) DO work but only to a point: I can get them to increase the indent (and paragraph numbers) and then decrease them, but once the indent is "decreased" back to Level 1 of my outline, the buttons don't work to increase it again; the Level 1 number stays with the paragraph, even tho' the indentation is increased. Then again, the only time I ever use those buttons is when I insert a Listnum field and want to advance or reverse it through the outline to another level. Cyndie Browning Tulsa, OK "Stefan Blom" wrote: [...] the only thing you surrender by using auto-numbered styles instead of the automatic lists function is that when you want to change to another level in your outline, you must click on the paragraph, then click on the appropriate style in your outline. Note that if the insertion point is in a paragraph to which you've applied a style, that is part of an outline, you should be able to use Alt+Shift+Left/Right arrow to promote/demote items in the list. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "gr8auntieokie" wrote in message ... Keith, all you have to do to make your Headings styles chain from one to the other (instead of reverting to Normal style on the next line) is to modify the style so that the "style for following paragraph" for Heading 1 is Heading 1 instead of Normal. Heading 2 should follow Heading 2, and so on. Caution, however: if you press Enter at the end of a number-styled line of text and then press Enter again before typing anything, your paragraph number "goes away; the next paragraph may still be styled as whatever number style you're using, but the numbers themselves can disappear. If that happens, just click on the style in the Style window and when the Modify style window opens, click on the box next to "Reapply the formatting of the style to the selection," and your number will come back. Using the Automatic lists function in Word does allow you to tab or shift+tab back and forth between the levels of your numbering, but automatic list numbers are not as stable as when you apply styles to each level of your numbered outline. And the only thing you surrender by using auto-numbered styles instead of the automatic lists function is that when you want to change to another level in your outline, you must click on the paragraph, then click on the appropriate style in your outline. But it's a small price to pay for an outline that's stable, no matter how long your document is. And with the Quick Styles sets sitting right on the Ribbon (under the Home tab), it's plenty convenient to move from one numbered style to the next. Cyndie Browning Tulsa, OK "Keith L" wrote: Office 2007 has an Online training session. When you do the training session for lists, it has a session for multilevel lists. It downloads a file to your computer to practice creating a Multilevel list using the planets as a sample. It does not work as expected. When the level uses header styles, pressing enter after a line drops down a line and selects the normal style. Another user had the same problem. It is related to the Multilevel list using Headers as a level. The default action after a header when pressing enter is to go to the next line and change to the normal style. This kicks you out of a multilevel list. |
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Well, I should have mentioned that with the *first* top-level item of an
existing list, the indent is changed, for the whole list, as you use the Alt+Shift+Right arrow shortcut. And in Outline view the shortcuts don't work at all (with numbered lists, that is; they do work with the built-in headings). sigh I believe this has been discussed previously in the newsgroups. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "gr8auntieokie" wrote in message ... That's interesting. I can't get that keystroke to work on my computer (Word 2007). The Increase Indent and Decrease Indent buttons on the Ribbon (Home tab/Paragraph group) DO work but only to a point: I can get them to increase the indent (and paragraph numbers) and then decrease them, but once the indent is "decreased" back to Level 1 of my outline, the buttons don't work to increase it again; the Level 1 number stays with the paragraph, even tho' the indentation is increased. Then again, the only time I ever use those buttons is when I insert a Listnum field and want to advance or reverse it through the outline to another level. Cyndie Browning Tulsa, OK "Stefan Blom" wrote: [...] the only thing you surrender by using auto-numbered styles instead of the automatic lists function is that when you want to change to another level in your outline, you must click on the paragraph, then click on the appropriate style in your outline. Note that if the insertion point is in a paragraph to which you've applied a style, that is part of an outline, you should be able to use Alt+Shift+Left/Right arrow to promote/demote items in the list. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "gr8auntieokie" wrote in message ... Keith, all you have to do to make your Headings styles chain from one to the other (instead of reverting to Normal style on the next line) is to modify the style so that the "style for following paragraph" for Heading 1 is Heading 1 instead of Normal. Heading 2 should follow Heading 2, and so on. Caution, however: if you press Enter at the end of a number-styled line of text and then press Enter again before typing anything, your paragraph number "goes away; the next paragraph may still be styled as whatever number style you're using, but the numbers themselves can disappear. If that happens, just click on the style in the Style window and when the Modify style window opens, click on the box next to "Reapply the formatting of the style to the selection," and your number will come back. Using the Automatic lists function in Word does allow you to tab or shift+tab back and forth between the levels of your numbering, but automatic list numbers are not as stable as when you apply styles to each level of your numbered outline. And the only thing you surrender by using auto-numbered styles instead of the automatic lists function is that when you want to change to another level in your outline, you must click on the paragraph, then click on the appropriate style in your outline. But it's a small price to pay for an outline that's stable, no matter how long your document is. And with the Quick Styles sets sitting right on the Ribbon (under the Home tab), it's plenty convenient to move from one numbered style to the next. Cyndie Browning Tulsa, OK "Keith L" wrote: Office 2007 has an Online training session. When you do the training session for lists, it has a session for multilevel lists. It downloads a file to your computer to practice creating a Multilevel list using the planets as a sample. It does not work as expected. When the level uses header styles, pressing enter after a line drops down a line and selects the normal style. Another user had the same problem. It is related to the Multilevel list using Headers as a level. The default action after a header when pressing enter is to go to the next line and change to the normal style. This kicks you out of a multilevel list. |
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