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Clarification on bullet styles
Hi,
I've read Shauna Kelley's excellent discussion on controlling bullets. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/bull...olbullets.html I need a bit further clarification please. My colleague thinks it is easer to set up "bullet-simple" so that people on our team can use the indent toolbar icon for pasting the next bullet style. I think that's a problem - and would prefer to do as Shauna suggests - create bullet styles in our template for each of the levels of bullets. My colleague thinks that's "harder" than simply using indent. Please give me some good ammunition for this. Thanks. |
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Clarification on bullet styles
You can have your cake and eat it too :-)
Set up your bullet styles using the outline numbered dialog, linking a separate style to each level. Work from the top level style, as Shauna explains for outline numbered headings. Then you can use the indent buttons to promote/demote bullet levels (warning - this doesn't work on the very first item, but in real life you are unlikely to want this to be anything except the top level bullet style). -- Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP Syntagma partnership site: http://www.syntagma.co.uk Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org "Annamarie" wrote in message ... Hi, I've read Shauna Kelley's excellent discussion on controlling bullets. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/bull...olbullets.html I need a bit further clarification please. My colleague thinks it is easer to set up "bullet-simple" so that people on our team can use the indent toolbar icon for pasting the next bullet style. I think that's a problem - and would prefer to do as Shauna suggests - create bullet styles in our template for each of the levels of bullets. My colleague thinks that's "harder" than simply using indent. Please give me some good ammunition for this. Thanks. |
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Clarification on bullet styles
Thanks very much. Nice not to have to argue with this particular colleague.
The carveat means that one would still have to apply the first level bullet style, right? But if my colleagues would learn to use Ctrl-l that would not be a problem? Right? Thanks again. "Margaret Aldis" wrote in message ... You can have your cake and eat it too :-) Set up your bullet styles using the outline numbered dialog, linking a separate style to each level. Work from the top level style, as Shauna explains for outline numbered headings. Then you can use the indent buttons to promote/demote bullet levels (warning - this doesn't work on the very first item, but in real life you are unlikely to want this to be anything except the top level bullet style). -- Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP Syntagma partnership site: http://www.syntagma.co.uk Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org "Annamarie" wrote in message ... Hi, I've read Shauna Kelley's excellent discussion on controlling bullets. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/bull...olbullets.html I need a bit further clarification please. My colleague thinks it is easer to set up "bullet-simple" so that people on our team can use the indent toolbar icon for pasting the next bullet style. I think that's a problem - and would prefer to do as Shauna suggests - create bullet styles in our template for each of the levels of bullets. My colleague thinks that's "harder" than simply using indent. Please give me some good ammunition for this. Thanks. |
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Clarification on bullet styles
Hi - yes, you'd still need to apply styles to add bullets, but once you are
in a bulleted style then you can promote/demote using the indent buttons. Ctrl-L to apply List Bullet is good. You could also customize the Formatting toolbar so that clicking on a button that looks 'bulleted' applies List Bullet style. (If you leave the standard buttons there, you'll never get those sort of colleagues to apply styles properly - they'll always be clicking bullets on or off as direct formatting.) -- Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP Syntagma partnership site: http://www.syntagma.co.uk Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org "Annamarie" wrote in message ... Thanks very much. Nice not to have to argue with this particular colleague. The carveat means that one would still have to apply the first level bullet style, right? But if my colleagues would learn to use Ctrl-l that would not be a problem? Right? Thanks again. "Margaret Aldis" wrote in message ... You can have your cake and eat it too :-) Set up your bullet styles using the outline numbered dialog, linking a separate style to each level. Work from the top level style, as Shauna explains for outline numbered headings. Then you can use the indent buttons to promote/demote bullet levels (warning - this doesn't work on the very first item, but in real life you are unlikely to want this to be anything except the top level bullet style). -- Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP Syntagma partnership site: http://www.syntagma.co.uk Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org "Annamarie" wrote in message ... Hi, I've read Shauna Kelley's excellent discussion on controlling bullets. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/bull...olbullets.html I need a bit further clarification please. My colleague thinks it is easer to set up "bullet-simple" so that people on our team can use the indent toolbar icon for pasting the next bullet style. I think that's a problem - and would prefer to do as Shauna suggests - create bullet styles in our template for each of the levels of bullets. My colleague thinks that's "harder" than simply using indent. Please give me some good ammunition for this. Thanks. |
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