Using Built in List Styles

[Guest]

Hi there,

when reading the MVP sponsored book, it suggests to use built-in styles as
much as possible (instead of making up your own names).

Most built-in styles are self-explanatory. However, the ones for lists are
a little confusing. There are 5 different ones (all paragraph styles)...
- List
- List Bullet
- List Continue
- List Number
- List Paragraph

I am trying to build a few multi-level styles using these (where each level
is linked to a style).

Does anyone know the naming convention used?
What is the practical way to use these styles with multi-levels?

Thanks,

Jean-Marc

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

* The List series provide a hanging indent but no bullet or number. Each
subsequent level has a larger indent. These are intended for manually
numbered/bulleted lists.

* The List Bullet series by default use the same bullet for every level but
have progressively larger indents. If you create an outline-numbered list
linked to these styles, you can use a different bullet for each level.

* Ditto for the List Number series.

* The List Continue styles have a left indent to match the hanging indent on
the corresponding level of List, List Bullet, and List Number styles.
They're used to continue the text begun in a paragraph in one of those
styles.

* I don' t have the List Paragraph style in Word 2003.

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[Beth Melton]

I'm not sure which book you are referring to (what book is it?) but I
suspect this pertained to paragraph and character styles instead of list
styles. I also suspect the rationale behind utilizing the built-in paragraph
and character styles is so you have more flexibility - especially in Word
2007 where Quick Style Sets allow you to swap the formatting of the styles
in a document with a few clicks of the mouse.

List Styles, OTOH, are a different beast and there really isn't a standard
naming convention. You should define your own. If using Word 2007, you
should use the Define New List Style command instead of Define New
Multilevel List.

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

There *is* a naming convention associated with the "list styles" Boca
mentioned (List, List Bullet, List Number, List Continue), as explained in
my post.

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[Beth Melton]

But since those are paragraph styles would it still apply to List styles? I
think using the same naming convention for a different style type might be
confusing. Unless, of course, one is using a paragraph style instead of a
List style type.

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

But I don't think the OP was talking about "list styles" per se but about
"List" styles, viz., the ones named that contain List in the style name.
Perhaps this is entirely different in Word 2007, but it is quite possible in
Word 2003 and earlier to build an outline list using any of these List
series styles; for example, I have quite a few outline-numbered lists with
Level 1 linked to List Number, Level 2 to List Number 2, Level 3 to List
Number 3, and so on.

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Beth Melton]

Ah, I see that possibility now.

And, yes, it's still possible to create the same styles using the List
Number styles in Word 2007.

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