Bulleting one line bullets all lines in document

[GoodWebby]

If I bulletize a line in Word 2003, then all lines in the document become
bulletized, not just the single line.

Why is this happening and how can I fix it?

 

[Stefan Blom]

See http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/wholedocumentreformatted.htm.

 

[GoodWebby2]

See http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/wholedocumentreformatted.htm.

Thanks for the link, but this was not the problem. The Auto-Update was not
checked on my Normal style nor on any of my available styles. Also, it only
happens on bullets, not other format changes like bolds, numbers, italics,
etc.

Any other suggestions on what might be causing this?

Regards,
Jim

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I've seen versions of Word, I think, in which the List Bullet style was set
to update automatically. Perhaps this style is being applied when you add
bullets (as a result of a setting in AutoFormat As You Type)?

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Stefan Blom]

I can certainly confirm that, for some versions (but I don't remember which
ones), List Bullet is one of those styles that are set to automatically
update.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I know it's not Word 2003 and probably not Word 2002, but it was so long ago
and so fleeting that I wondered if I'd imagined it. Thanks for the
confirmation!

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Stefan Blom]

And it's not Word 2007, so I guess that leaves Word 97 and/or Word 2000!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Or (in my case) Word for Windows 95 or Word 6.0 or Word 2.0!

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Stefan Blom]

Good point, but I would have guessed that "Automatically update" is a
relatively new feature. On the other hand, since it existed in Word 97, it's
been around for more than a decade, which I suppose is an eternity in the
software industry.

Not surprisingly, the reason I didn't think beyond Word 97 is that it was
the first version I used "for real." Actually, my first attempts in word
processing were with Lotus AmiPro (which was probably already obsolete when
I started using it) and then Lotus Word Pro.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The only thing I know about AmiPro and WordPro is that people loved AmiPro
and were convinced that Lotus had shot itself in the foot with WordPro.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Stefan Blom]

Actually, in certain ways Word Pro was very good. For example, it had what
Word 2007 calls "alignment tabs" already in the 90's.

The problem with Word Pro was the poor compatibility with Word, and a few
bugs that were never sorted out. You can still use the application, though,
at least on Windows XP, and I keep an installation of Word Pro on my home
computer, primarily so that I can read old *.lwp files.

 

[Graham Mayor]

Have you seen http://word.mvps.org/faqs/general/wordproconvertercontent.htm.
You can download an AmiPro converter from my web site.

AmiPro was brilliant! All it needed was for it to be updated to use long
filenames, but instead Lotus lost the plot and replaced it with WordPro
which was crap! Exit Lotus!

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com

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[Stefan Blom]

Thanks for the tip, Graham.

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

Have you seenhttp://word.mvps.org/faqs/general/wordproconvertercontent.htm.
You can download an AmiPro converter from my web site.

AmiPro was brilliant! All it needed was for it to be updated to use long
filenames, but instead Lotus lost the plot and replaced it with WordPro
which was crap! Exit Lotus!

Many years ago, James Fallows (who was The Atlantic's correspondent in
China for the longest time) gave a brillkant write-up to Lotus Agenda
in that magazine -- it was a sort of primitive relational database
that combined what seem to be the functions of Access and Outlook. I
got the last copy at one of the earliest computer stores in
Chicagoland -- it might have been a BestBuy -- and not long after,
lucked into aftermarket books on both v.1 and the one I have, v.2.

It was for DOS. I wonder whether it would work on Vista, or Windows 7
-- and whether the installation diskettes are still readable.

BTW, speaking of which, the Wall Street Borders already has five full
shelves of Windows 7 books, and it's not available for a week and a
half yet.

 

[Stefan Blom]

AmiPro was brilliant! All it needed was for it to be updated to use long

filenames, but instead Lotus lost the plot and replaced it with WordPro
which was crap! Exit Lotus!

AmiPro may have been ahead of its time, but I doubt that it could have
competed with Word in the long run, even if it had been updated to fully
work with the newer versions of Windows.

 

[Graham Mayor]

What AmiPro did well was offer itself as a simple Word Processor that worked
to provide all the functions that most users required, without trying
unsuccessfuly to be all things to all men - like Word. It was easy to use,
easy to learn, fast and uncluttered. Reading the comments from Word 2007
users and having struggled for a long time to gain competence with that
version, it is clear that there is a demand for something that is easy to
use and does the jobs that most people require. Any software that is
unintuitive and stands between the user and his work only survives because
of the marketing power of its manufacturer. Lotus had that marketing power
and chose to throw it away. Is Microsoft making the same fundamental error?

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com

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[Peter T. Daniels]

Does Works fill that need? I've never seen it, but it seems from the
occasional mentions here that it may well do so. Have they stopped
bundling it with new purchases?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Unfortunately, what's now "bundled" (if it even deserves that term) is a
trial version of Office 2007 (and extremely little effort is made to make
the purchaser aware that it is *only* a trial version). The downside of
Works, as can be seen from a nearby thread about converting .wps files, it
that it does not, by default, create files that are as universally usable as
..doc or .docx. There was a time when the "word processor" was so limited
that the only way to create a table was in the spreadsheet; I think that is
no longer true.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

Does Works fill that need? I've never seen it, but it seems from the
occasional mentions here that it may well do so. Have they stopped
bundling it with new purchases?

 

[Stefan Blom]

But is there a real competitor today? One might argue that the open source
word processors are a threat to Word, but they seem to imitate Word so
closely that I doubt it. Specifically, I heard that OpenOffice is planning
to introduce ribbons in a future release (I don't know for sure if this is
accurate).