Strike Through - Bulleted items - striking bullet?

[+Bob+]

WOrd 2002

I am trying to use "strike through" with a document that contains
quite a number of bulleted lists. I carefully select the words in the
bullet and apply strike through. But, it strikes through not only the
selected text, but also the bullet itself and the empty space between
the bullet and the text. I've shut of "smart paragraph selection" to
keep it from grabbing more than I want.

If I do not select the first character in the text, it works fine. It
also works fine if I select from the start but not the end of the
text.I've tried turning on the paragraphs markers and making sure that
the marker is not selected - it isn't. Oddly, if I select several
bullet items, the one at the bottom (paragraph marker not selected)
will work fine, all those above have their paragraph markers selected
and will strike through as noted above.

Any thoughts or techniques to correct this?

Thanks,

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

This is Word outsmarting you again. No matter how carefully you avoid
selecting the paragraph mark, Word, trying to be helpful, will select it
anyway if you have selected all the text in the paragraph. You have to go
back and select *just* the paragraph mark and remove the formatting.

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

 

[+Bob+]

This is Word outsmarting you again. No matter how carefully you avoid
selecting the paragraph mark, Word, trying to be helpful, will select it
anyway if you have selected all the text in the paragraph. You have to go
back and select *just* the paragraph mark and remove the formatting.

Suzanne:

Thanks, but I don't think it's that. I've selected with the paragraph
marks on, and there are not selected. I even tried putting three
spaces between the end-of-text and the paragraph mark, then selecting
only the text, leaving the spaces clearly unselected (again, marks
turned on to confirm) and it still strikes through the bullet.

The only way I've found so far to avoid it is to NOT select the first
single character in the line. Then, sometimes, I can go back and
select the first character and strike through it. However, in some
cases (unpredictable) doing that causes it to strike the bullet again.

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

Suzanne:

Thanks, but I don't think it's that. I've selected with the paragraph
marks on, and there are not selected. I even tried putting three
spaces between the end-of-text and the paragraph mark, then selecting
only the text, leaving the spaces clearly unselected (again, marks
turned on to confirm) and it still strikes through the bullet.

The only way I've found so far to avoid it is to NOT select the first
single character in the line. Then, sometimes, I can go back and
select the first character and strike through it. However, in some
cases (unpredictable) doing that causes it to strike the bullet again.

Look closely at what Suzanne said: Select _only_ the paragraph mark.
You report that you did exactly the opposite, selecting everything
_but_ the paragraph mark.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Have you tried what I suggested?

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

 

[+Bob+]

Have you tried what I suggested?

I've tried about every possibility out there. I've discovered that
it's a definite bug. I can easily do exactly what I want in one area
of the document, yet in another section it always strikes through the
bullet. The areas are identical as I am using styles for all the
formatting and even the heading hierarchy is the same.

Thanks anyway,

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

What we are trying to tell you is that there is probably no way to avoid
getting the bullet formatted as strikethrough. What you then have to do is
select *just* the paragraph mark and remove the strikethrough formatting
from it. Even if you have very carefully avoided including it in your
original selection, Word will include it anyway, trying to be helpful.

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

 

[+Bob+]

What we are trying to tell you is that there is probably no way to avoid
getting the bullet formatted as strikethrough. What you then have to do is
select *just* the paragraph mark and remove the strikethrough formatting
from it. Even if you have very carefully avoided including it in your
original selection, Word will include it anyway, trying to be helpful.

Oh... I see. That does work, although it's definitely extra work. You
can also select ALL the bullets in a list and remove strike through,
although most of the time I end up moving the bullets when I select
that way and have to undo them back into position.

But, there's still no explanation of why it works the correct way in
one part of a document and not in another.