Why Bullets and Numbering Affect Unrelated Parts of Document

[Nick Piazza]

I keep having a strange problem occur in Word 2007 regard Bullets and
Numbering. The scenario is as follows.
I use the Numbering button on the Home tab to create a numbered list. Later
on in the document, I use the Bullets button on the Home tab to start a
bulleted list. As soon as I do that, the previously numbered list changes to
a bulleted list, and I have to go back, reselect that block of code, and
re-click the Numbering button. Why does starting a bulleted list in another
part of the document affect a previous part of the document with a numbered
list. I've turned off most of the AutoFormat, AutoCorrect, and AutoFormat As
You Type options, but this problem still keeps occurring. What do I have to
do to correct this behavior?

 

[Nick Piazza]

Disregard the previous query. I found and corrected the problem. The
bullets and numbering were using the List Paragraph style with "Automatically
update" checked. Unchecking that option corrected the problem. I wasn't
expecting the Numbering or Bullets Home tab buttons to use a predefined style.

 

[Stefan Blom]

If you want to stop Word from changing the style when you apply bullet or
number formatting, select the "Use Normal style for bulleted or numbered
lists" in Office button | Word Options, Advanced category (look under
"Editing options").

More importantly, though, you can create lists in Word by applying the
appropriate style. For example, to create a bulleted list you can simply
select the text and press Ctrl+Shift+L; this applies the List Bullet
paragraph style, which you can modify as desired.