Peform your bullet or numbering.

After you get the the last bullet or number -- press enter.

Another bullet or number comes up.  Back space and it disappears.  And then you can continue without it.

However, you really should be using your section breaks.  In other words, create a section break -- work within that section and when the formatting needs to change, such as the numbering is to end, then create a new section break and continue.  The section breaks are embedded and are not seen in the document.

You create section breaks at the insert menu.  However, just pressing back space at the point where you want the numbering to stop will stop the numbering or bullets.

 

Message Edited by Legaleze50 on 03-26-2006 09:45 PM

I must not be explaining myself well.

Whenever I press bullet, numbering or indent ALL LINES (even space lines)  in the document get that formatting applied to them.

I've worked with Word since it first came out and I've had this problem a couple of times. However, the way it is supposed to work is that it will apply that formatting from that point until you turn it off just like the underlining I did in this sentence.

It should NOT apply the formatting to the whole document.

And you should not have to use section breaks just to apply minor formatting changes in the text. If you had to do that for bullets, numbering and indenting - why not for bolding, italicizing and underlining?

• When you want bullets
• You should get bullets

1. When you want numbers
2. You shuld get numbers

Something is just wrong or set wrong in my Word program.

I have tried running the "Detect and Repair" function but that didn't help either.

Hope someone can help. This is very irritating.

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Below is what my message above looks like when pasted into Word and then just pressing the Bullet formatting icon.

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They were checked. I unchecked them. Still the same problem. Then I re-checked them. bullets and numbers seem to work OK now, but indent still indents every line in the document.

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Funny - This document works exactly I want Word to work. It applies the formatting exactly when and where you want it and continues with the same formatting (bullets, numbers, indent) every time you hit "Enter" and continues until you uncheck bullets or numbers; or until you hit "Enter" twice; or in the case of indent, you apply the indent arrows for either more or less indenting.

That's the way Word should work, but mine still doesn't. For example, when I hit "Indent" every line in the document indents.

And although I can hit "bullet" or "number" and it applies the bullet or number for that line rather than every line, if I hit "indent" it not only moves every line in the document, it also appies bullets or numbers (whatever I have applied previously) to EVERY LINE again.

Mystifying.

I guess I could try uninstalling and reinstalling again.

By the way, I have the "Student and Teacher's Edition" of Office 2003. Does that make any difference?

Thanks for trying to help.

And the screen shots did not come right up for me.  I provide two screen shots of what I'm referring to in my post.  If you have a two boxes in my reply with a little red "x" -- and no screen shots -- then right clieck and "show picture."

Message Edited by Legaleze50 on 03-28-2006 04:35 PM

There are settings that you can modify to your liking.  You change where the allign; how much tab space comes after; and how much they indent.  I doubt there's a difference in the student edition.  I don't think you need to reinstall.  A reinstall will not work as these are default settings; a reinstall will give you the same settings.  On the top of Word to to:

Format; Bullets & Numbering: Cutomize

 

Semana,

Your styles have been updated. You can reset everything to normal by clicking Start, Run, then type the following:

%userprofile%\application data\microsoft\templates

and clicking OK. Delete all normal files listed. Restart Word and your bullets/numbering should work fine.

ZOWIE!!! WOWIE!!! BINGO!!!

Thank you very much my friend. That did the trick. Yes, I had changed my styles quite a bit - different normal font, different Heading 1, Heading 2, Heading 3, different Paragraph style, and a few more things.

But deleting the normal template and then re-starting Word got me back to where the formatting buttons work just as they do in this posting software - which is the way I want them to work. So as "The King" would say.....

THANK YOU VERY MUCH

The screen shots came through just fine, but don't help. My problem has nothing to do with customizing the formatting of my numbers, bullets and indents. It has to do with the formatting being applied to every line in my document rather than just the line to which I have applied the formatting. See my previous emails.

You may want to make sure you are not automatically updating your styles, or Word will do this again. Go to Format, Autoformat, click the Options button, select the Autoformat as you Type tab and make sure there is no check in the "Define Styles Based on Your Formatting"

Thanks

It's not checked. For the item "Automatically as you type" there are three boxes and only the first one is checked.

Automatically as you type

Format beginning of list item like the one before it (This one is checked)

Set left-and first-indent with tabs and backspaces (Not checked)

Define style based on your formatting (Not checked)

 

Thanks again for your help. This has been a problem in the past and it's a relief to have it fixed.

Open the problem document, press CTRL-A to select the entire document, then press CTRL-C to copy it. Open a brand new blank document. Choose Edit, Paste Special, and choose Unformatted Text from the list.

This should work, but, if not, let me know.

As for the error on the Submit for this forum, you may have pasted something, or you may have a bad signature (although I don't see your using a signature)

• I press the bullet icon to start a bullet list (as I'm doing here).
• I applies bullets to every line in the document (the problem I've been dealing with)
• Then, if I press the arrow "undo bullet default" it removes all bullets except the one I created by pressing the bullet icon to start with

What is going on I wonder?

Post Script - whenever I click "Submit Post" I get that message about Dell removing a hyperlink because they aren't allowed. I nearly ALWAYS get this message and I NEVER put hyperlinks in my postings. Another "anomaly" or is my computer just out to get me?

I just wish all my Word documents would format the way this "Message Body" posting formats. Is that too much to ask?

By the way - I did sign up for the Word news tips ("WordTips Online) so maybe I can start learning for myself about Word - even though I've been using it since it came out for Windows 95.

After you get all your docs behaving properly and your normal.dot is set up the way you want, click Tools>Options and then click Save tab.

Put a check in the box "prompt to save normal template". That way Word will warn you that it's about to save changes to the normal.dot template. If you didn't knowingly make any changes, or just don't want the current settings to become the default settings for new docs, just click NO at the prompt.

And if you made lots of changes to your normal.dot template, save a copy with another file name. That way when normal.dot goes flaky, as it often does, just delete it and make a copy of the backup file and save it in the right folder with the name normal.dot. Saves lots of time and swearing at Microsoft. ;)

Ron