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How to automatically format the 1st 4 characters of sentence
Hello,
I have a document that I created using all styles and formatting. I would like to create a "note" style that will automatically bold the word Note at the beginning of the sentence when I apply the style to it. Additionally, it would be great to be able to type a sentence and when I apply the note style, the word "NOTE" appears in front of the sentence. Is this possible? -- Michael Randall Technical Writer Trend Micro, Nanjing China |
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How to automatically format the 1st 4 characters of sentence
Only in numbered and bulleted lists. Don't know which version of Word you're
using, but in the AutoCorrect options dialog box, click the AutoFormat as You Type tab, and under the Automatically as you type options, note the "Format beginning of list item like the one before it" option. This does what you want, but only in numbered/bulleted lists. By clever use of white coloring for the number font and changing the indents, you can make a list look like normal text. But, there are no "stability" guarantees. But, personally, I find using Word's list formatting to be rather fragile, and not worth the effort. What I do for Notes... is use an AutoText shortcut. I preformat my note, including the word Note in bold and any punctuation that follows the word, with a space (not bold) following the word Note so that when I type there, it's not bold; then format the note as I want it to appear (for my purposes, I format using a style that include shading and left/right indentation). Then, when I want a note, I type the word note and press F3. This can also be done using an AutoCorrect entry, but if you go that route, I'd use an abbreviation as the name rather than an actual word that gets used in other contexts. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Michael_Randall" wrote in message ... Hello, I have a document that I created using all styles and formatting. I would like to create a "note" style that will automatically bold the word Note at the beginning of the sentence when I apply the style to it. Additionally, it would be great to be able to type a sentence and when I apply the note style, the word "NOTE" appears in front of the sentence. Is this possible? -- Michael Randall Technical Writer Trend Micro, Nanjing China |
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After reading Graham's comment that "text bullets" don't work in Word 2007,
I can begin to see the reason for your elaborate workaround of "clever use of white coloring for the number font and changing the indents." In earlier versions, you can make a "numbered" list with no numbering, just the text. I use this for Q&A (see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/QandA.htm). -- 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. "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message ... Only in numbered and bulleted lists. Don't know which version of Word you're using, but in the AutoCorrect options dialog box, click the AutoFormat as You Type tab, and under the Automatically as you type options, note the "Format beginning of list item like the one before it" option. This does what you want, but only in numbered/bulleted lists. By clever use of white coloring for the number font and changing the indents, you can make a list look like normal text. But, there are no "stability" guarantees. But, personally, I find using Word's list formatting to be rather fragile, and not worth the effort. What I do for Notes... is use an AutoText shortcut. I preformat my note, including the word Note in bold and any punctuation that follows the word, with a space (not bold) following the word Note so that when I type there, it's not bold; then format the note as I want it to appear (for my purposes, I format using a style that include shading and left/right indentation). Then, when I want a note, I type the word note and press F3. This can also be done using an AutoCorrect entry, but if you go that route, I'd use an abbreviation as the name rather than an actual word that gets used in other contexts. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Michael_Randall" wrote in message ... Hello, I have a document that I created using all styles and formatting. I would like to create a "note" style that will automatically bold the word Note at the beginning of the sentence when I apply the style to it. Additionally, it would be great to be able to type a sentence and when I apply the note style, the word "NOTE" appears in front of the sentence. Is this possible? -- Michael Randall Technical Writer Trend Micro, Nanjing China |
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I've just about given up using Word's built-in bullets and numbering for all
but the simplest needs. The feature is simply too fragile, and it has not matured over time. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... After reading Graham's comment that "text bullets" don't work in Word 2007, I can begin to see the reason for your elaborate workaround of "clever use of white coloring for the number font and changing the indents." In earlier versions, you can make a "numbered" list with no numbering, just the text. I use this for Q&A (see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/QandA.htm). -- 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. "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message ... Only in numbered and bulleted lists. Don't know which version of Word you're using, but in the AutoCorrect options dialog box, click the AutoFormat as You Type tab, and under the Automatically as you type options, note the "Format beginning of list item like the one before it" option. This does what you want, but only in numbered/bulleted lists. By clever use of white coloring for the number font and changing the indents, you can make a list look like normal text. But, there are no "stability" guarantees. But, personally, I find using Word's list formatting to be rather fragile, and not worth the effort. What I do for Notes... is use an AutoText shortcut. I preformat my note, including the word Note in bold and any punctuation that follows the word, with a space (not bold) following the word Note so that when I type there, it's not bold; then format the note as I want it to appear (for my purposes, I format using a style that include shading and left/right indentation). Then, when I want a note, I type the word note and press F3. This can also be done using an AutoCorrect entry, but if you go that route, I'd use an abbreviation as the name rather than an actual word that gets used in other contexts. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Michael_Randall" wrote in message ... Hello, I have a document that I created using all styles and formatting. I would like to create a "note" style that will automatically bold the word Note at the beginning of the sentence when I apply the style to it. Additionally, it would be great to be able to type a sentence and when I apply the note style, the word "NOTE" appears in front of the sentence. Is this possible? -- Michael Randall Technical Writer Trend Micro, Nanjing China |
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I don't ever use the "built-in bullets and numbering" if by that you mean
bullets or numbering applied by using the Bullets or Numbering buttons. I use only bulleted/numbered styles (List Bullet, List Number, etc.), modified as necessary. -- 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. "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message ... I've just about given up using Word's built-in bullets and numbering for all but the simplest needs. The feature is simply too fragile, and it has not matured over time. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... After reading Graham's comment that "text bullets" don't work in Word 2007, I can begin to see the reason for your elaborate workaround of "clever use of white coloring for the number font and changing the indents." In earlier versions, you can make a "numbered" list with no numbering, just the text. I use this for Q&A (see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/QandA.htm). -- 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. "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message ... Only in numbered and bulleted lists. Don't know which version of Word you're using, but in the AutoCorrect options dialog box, click the AutoFormat as You Type tab, and under the Automatically as you type options, note the "Format beginning of list item like the one before it" option. This does what you want, but only in numbered/bulleted lists. By clever use of white coloring for the number font and changing the indents, you can make a list look like normal text. But, there are no "stability" guarantees. But, personally, I find using Word's list formatting to be rather fragile, and not worth the effort. What I do for Notes... is use an AutoText shortcut. I preformat my note, including the word Note in bold and any punctuation that follows the word, with a space (not bold) following the word Note so that when I type there, it's not bold; then format the note as I want it to appear (for my purposes, I format using a style that include shading and left/right indentation). Then, when I want a note, I type the word note and press F3. This can also be done using an AutoCorrect entry, but if you go that route, I'd use an abbreviation as the name rather than an actual word that gets used in other contexts. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Michael_Randall" wrote in message ... Hello, I have a document that I created using all styles and formatting. I would like to create a "note" style that will automatically bold the word Note at the beginning of the sentence when I apply the style to it. Additionally, it would be great to be able to type a sentence and when I apply the note style, the word "NOTE" appears in front of the sentence. Is this possible? -- Michael Randall Technical Writer Trend Micro, Nanjing China |
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How to automatically format the 1st 4 characters of sentence
I don't use the bulleted/numbered styles either... they're far too fragile
in long documents. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... I don't ever use the "built-in bullets and numbering" if by that you mean bullets or numbering applied by using the Bullets or Numbering buttons. I use only bulleted/numbered styles (List Bullet, List Number, etc.), modified as necessary. -- 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. "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message ... I've just about given up using Word's built-in bullets and numbering for all but the simplest needs. The feature is simply too fragile, and it has not matured over time. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... After reading Graham's comment that "text bullets" don't work in Word 2007, I can begin to see the reason for your elaborate workaround of "clever use of white coloring for the number font and changing the indents." In earlier versions, you can make a "numbered" list with no numbering, just the text. I use this for Q&A (see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/QandA.htm). -- 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. "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message ... Only in numbered and bulleted lists. Don't know which version of Word you're using, but in the AutoCorrect options dialog box, click the AutoFormat as You Type tab, and under the Automatically as you type options, note the "Format beginning of list item like the one before it" option. This does what you want, but only in numbered/bulleted lists. By clever use of white coloring for the number font and changing the indents, you can make a list look like normal text. But, there are no "stability" guarantees. But, personally, I find using Word's list formatting to be rather fragile, and not worth the effort. What I do for Notes... is use an AutoText shortcut. I preformat my note, including the word Note in bold and any punctuation that follows the word, with a space (not bold) following the word Note so that when I type there, it's not bold; then format the note as I want it to appear (for my purposes, I format using a style that include shading and left/right indentation). Then, when I want a note, I type the word note and press F3. This can also be done using an AutoCorrect entry, but if you go that route, I'd use an abbreviation as the name rather than an actual word that gets used in other contexts. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Michael_Randall" wrote in message ... Hello, I have a document that I created using all styles and formatting. I would like to create a "note" style that will automatically bold the word Note at the beginning of the sentence when I apply the style to it. Additionally, it would be great to be able to type a sentence and when I apply the note style, the word "NOTE" appears in front of the sentence. Is this possible? -- Michael Randall Technical Writer Trend Micro, Nanjing China |
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See http://www.gmayor.com/Text_as_bullet.htm, however this does not appear
to work with Word 2007. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Michael_Randall wrote: Hello, I have a document that I created using all styles and formatting. I would like to create a "note" style that will automatically bold the word Note at the beginning of the sentence when I apply the style to it. Additionally, it would be great to be able to type a sentence and when I apply the note style, the word "NOTE" appears in front of the sentence. Is this possible? |
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