Header style issues

This is Word 2003 and I'm using the preset Header 1 and 2 styles and for some reason, there's a dot in front of each Header-applied paragraph. I don't want an outline. How can I get rid of it?

On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:09:57 +0000, kylera
wrote:


This is Word 2003 and I'm using the preset Header 1 and 2 styles and for
some reason, there's a dot in front of each Header-applied paragraph. I
don't want an outline. How can I get rid of it?

Is it really a dot, like in a bullet style, or is it a little black
square in the left margin? The latter is a nonprinting mark that tells
you one or more of the boxes are checked in the Line & Page Breaks tab
of the Format Paragraph dialog. Look about 3/4 of the way down the
page at http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...PrintChars.htm to
see a description. It will go away when you turn off nonprinting
characters by clicking the ¶ button.

If there really is a bullet (black circle) at the start of the
heading, and it prints, then you've gotten a bullet attached to the
style. In that case, go to the Format Style task pane, right-click
the Heading 1 style, and choose Modify. In the dialog that appears,
click the Format button in the bottom left and choose Numbering.
Choose the None box and ok back to the document. You may have to
repeat this for Heading 2, or the bullet may have been inherited from
the Heading 1. The other thing you need to do is to go to Tools
AutoCorrect Options AutoFormat As You Type, and make sure "Define
styles based on your formatting" is _not_ checked.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
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In addition to what Jay said, note that there is only one Header style (used
in the page header); what you're describing are the Heading 1 and Heading 2
styles, which, along with Heading 3 and Heading 4 are formatted as "Keep
with next," hence the bullet.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:09:57 +0000, kylera
wrote:


This is Word 2003 and I'm using the preset Header 1 and 2 styles and for
some reason, there's a dot in front of each Header-applied paragraph. I
don't want an outline. How can I get rid of it?

Is it really a dot, like in a bullet style, or is it a little black
square in the left margin? The latter is a nonprinting mark that tells
you one or more of the boxes are checked in the Line & Page Breaks tab
of the Format Paragraph dialog. Look about 3/4 of the way down the
page at http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...PrintChars.htm to
see a description. It will go away when you turn off nonprinting
characters by clicking the ¶ button.

If there really is a bullet (black circle) at the start of the
heading, and it prints, then you've gotten a bullet attached to the
style. In that case, go to the Format Style task pane, right-click
the Heading 1 style, and choose Modify. In the dialog that appears,
click the Format button in the bottom left and choose Numbering.
Choose the None box and ok back to the document. You may have to
repeat this for Heading 2, or the bullet may have been inherited from
the Heading 1. The other thing you need to do is to go to Tools
AutoCorrect Options AutoFormat As You Type, and make sure "Define
styles based on your formatting" is _not_ checked.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup
so all may benefit.

Originally Posted by Jay Freedman

On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:09:57 +0000, kylera
wrote:


This is Word 2003 and I'm using the preset Header 1 and 2 styles and for
some reason, there's a dot in front of each Header-applied paragraph. I
don't want an outline. How can I get rid of it?

Is it really a dot, like in a bullet style, or is it a little black
square in the left margin? The latter is a nonprinting mark that tells
you one or more of the boxes are checked in the Line & Page Breaks tab
of the Format Paragraph dialog. Look about 3/4 of the way down the
page at http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...PrintChars.htm to
see a description. It will go away when you turn off nonprinting
characters by clicking the ¶ button.

If there really is a bullet (black circle) at the start of the
heading, and it prints, then you've gotten a bullet attached to the
style. In that case, go to the Format Style task pane, right-click
the Heading 1 style, and choose Modify. In the dialog that appears,
click the Format button in the bottom left and choose Numbering.
Choose the None box and ok back to the document. You may have to
repeat this for Heading 2, or the bullet may have been inherited from
the Heading 1. The other thing you need to do is to go to Tools
AutoCorrect Options AutoFormat As You Type, and make sure "Define
styles based on your formatting" is _not_ checked.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit.

Huh! No kidding! Much thanks, it won't bother me anymore now!