Bullets misbehaving!

[Guest]

Hi

Does anyone know what's going on with my bullets? Each time I return, a
number bullet is normally created on the next line down. Now, for some
reason, when I return a line space is occurring before the the next number
bullet. It's almost as if double line space has been switched on (it hasn't).

I can't see why this is happening. Does anyone else?

 

[Charles Kenyon]

See: How to create numbered headings or outline numbering in your Word
document
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numbering/OutlineNumbering.html. (For
bullets see http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/bullets/controlbullets.html, the
subject is related.)

This is based on ...

Word's Numbering Explained
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Numbering/WordsNumberingExplained.htm


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[Guest]

Thanks Charles. I'll take a look

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Does your bulleted style have Space Before or After?

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[Guest]

Hi Suzanne

No there are no spaces before or after the bullet. The parameters for the
bullets working correctly are identical to the misbehaving bullets.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

No, I'm talking about paragraph formatting. Go to Format | Paragraph and see
if there is a non-zero number in the Spacing: Before/After box.

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[Guest]

Hi

I'm talking about the same thing! The spaces before and after are set to
zero. It;'s why I'm so baffled...

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Grasping at straws here, but check the Layout tab of Page Setup and make
sure the vertical alignment is set to Top.

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[Guest]

JD, I know exactly what you mean, and this has bugged me since I moved up to
Word 2003. I was just looking through the forums for an answer and all I
could find was your question. Here's what I know: (turn on display of hidden
characters to make it obvious):

If the cursor is resting (blinking) on a bullet that's blank (no text on
that line, just a hard return) and I press the return/enter key, that bullet
changes to a normal (non-bulleted) line and the new line I've created is also
a normal (non-bulleted) line with the cursor resting at the start of that new
line. This happens whether I start on the last bullet of a set or I start on
an empty bullet in the middle of a set of bullets.

Note that this is not an issue of space before or after paragraphs. I'm
quite familiar with that option and use it a lot in my work. As I said,
turning on display of hard returns will make the behavior quite clear.

Now frankly, I find this irritating. I'm used to creating a number of extra
bullets within a set and then populating them with text in some order other
than first, second, third, etc. I know that I can select the bullets that
were automatically converted to normal paragraphs and convert them back, but
that does seem excessive. This was not an issue in Office 2000.

I thought there would be a checkbox somewhere in the style and formatting
options but so far I've been unable to find one that affects this behavior.
Maybe someone else knows where to find it . . .

Regards,
Bryan

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

This was set up as a way for clueless users (which you obviously are not) to
"get out of" bullets. If you will type at least a single space after the
bullet before pressing Enter, the bullet will be retained.

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Words into Type
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