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Subject:RE: Word bullets should be shot From:dthomps -at- foundationsoft -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 23 Jan 2003 14:58:35 -0500
I'm not sure if this is the source of your problem ... but have you checked
the status of the Define Styles Based on Your Formatting checkbox on the
AutoFormat as You Type tab of the AutoCorrect dialog box?
(That is ...
1. Tools --> AutoCorrect.
2. AutoFormat as You Type tab.
3. Disable/uncheck the Define Styles Based on Your Formatting checkbox.)
While you're in there ... you might as well turn off most of these
"features." When turned on, they have cause a large number of prematurely
gray hairs on my head!
Okay, I know better than to use the bulleted list icon in Word - I'm a
good boy, and use styles. But I'm trying to help somebody else with a
document that is being written collaboratively by a team who may not be
hip to this concept. And I've just discovered a new Word anomaly.
The bullets created by the bulleted list icon are not the same as my
bullet style (understandable), but they can be used to apply a style with
the same name as my bullet style, but they then CHANGE that style. After
applying bullets to a section using The Forbidden Bullet Icon, it not only
changes the appearance of my existing, style-created bullets, but it also
has somehow changed the actual parameters of that style. When I go in to
check on or edit the style, it is NOT the same as when I left it. That's
new one on me - I thought I had the Word beast pretty well tamed. And this
is the first time I've seen the bullet icon actually changing the style
(not just the appearance) of the paragragh to which it is applied - you
can see the name change in the style window. I finally figured out how to
get the icon to apply that style (something I didn't know Word could do),
but why is it changing it?
Thoughts? Sympathy? Scotch?
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