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Pub 2007 and Numbered Lists
Hi,
I've just been trying out the Beta of Office 2007 and Publisher in particular. There have been some improvements; the PDF integration being the biggest. However it looks like the developers have worked on fluffy stuff like the templates rather than useful functionality (PDF being the exception). Here's an example of what I mean. I'm creating a question and answer list. Each question uses a text style that asks Publisher to apply a numbered list. The answer text (non numbered) then follows it. I then move on to the next numbered question and so on. Publisher refuses to continue the previous numbering sequence because I have non numbered sections inbetween. Ah, you say, well Publisher isn't a word processor. True, but I can choose to edit my story in MS Word. Now I've always assumed that the purpose of this was to integrate Publisher and Word and allow you to use Word's rich text editing capabilities to edit your story and then show the result in Publisher. When I ask Publisher to edit my text in Word the (Question and Answer) styles are brought across with it. All I have to do is right click on the second numbered question and tell Word to `Continue Numbering' for it to replace 1 with 2. If I highlight the text and specify that the Question Style should be updated to match selection, then all my questions are numbered correctly. Wow, that was easy. If I save and close Word to return to Publisher, it's all forgotten and Publisher displays each question with a number 1 against it. Duh! I ask myself what is the point of being able to edit in Word, when standard stuff like this does not follow through. I even saved the text as a native Word document. When I asked Publisher to import my Word document, all the questions started with number 1 again. Has anyone else come across this problem or problems like it? Regards, Dominic |
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Pub 2007 and Numbered Lists
First of all, a lot of issues are fixed with the Beta Refresh, the PDF option
will be gone, but it is available as an add-in. http://www.microsoft.com/office/prev...etthebeta.mspx http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/r...DisplayLang=en Use shift+enter at the end of the first number, write the non-numbered text, place the cursor in front of the text where you want the next number, press enter... -- Mary Sauer MSFT MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://msauer.mvps.org/ news://msnews.microsoft.com http://officebeta.iponet.net/en-us/p...649111033.aspx wrote in message oups.com... Hi, I've just been trying out the Beta of Office 2007 and Publisher in particular. There have been some improvements; the PDF integration being the biggest. However it looks like the developers have worked on fluffy stuff like the templates rather than useful functionality (PDF being the exception). Here's an example of what I mean. I'm creating a question and answer list. Each question uses a text style that asks Publisher to apply a numbered list. The answer text (non numbered) then follows it. I then move on to the next numbered question and so on. Publisher refuses to continue the previous numbering sequence because I have non numbered sections inbetween. Ah, you say, well Publisher isn't a word processor. True, but I can choose to edit my story in MS Word. Now I've always assumed that the purpose of this was to integrate Publisher and Word and allow you to use Word's rich text editing capabilities to edit your story and then show the result in Publisher. When I ask Publisher to edit my text in Word the (Question and Answer) styles are brought across with it. All I have to do is right click on the second numbered question and tell Word to `Continue Numbering' for it to replace 1 with 2. If I highlight the text and specify that the Question Style should be updated to match selection, then all my questions are numbered correctly. Wow, that was easy. If I save and close Word to return to Publisher, it's all forgotten and Publisher displays each question with a number 1 against it. Duh! I ask myself what is the point of being able to edit in Word, when standard stuff like this does not follow through. I even saved the text as a native Word document. When I asked Publisher to import my Word document, all the questions started with number 1 again. Has anyone else come across this problem or problems like it? Regards, Dominic |
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