That's interesting. I can't get that keystroke to work on my computer
(Word
2007). The Increase Indent and Decrease Indent buttons on the Ribbon
(Home
tab/Paragraph group) DO work but only to a point: I can get them to
increase
the indent (and paragraph numbers) and then decrease them, but once the
indent is "decreased" back to Level 1 of my outline, the buttons don't
work
to increase it again; the Level 1 number stays with the paragraph, even
tho'
the indentation is increased. Then again, the only time I ever use those
buttons is when I insert a Listnum field and want to advance or reverse it
through the outline to another level.
Cyndie Browning
Tulsa, OK
Stefan Blom said:
[...] the only thing you surrender by using auto-numbered
styles instead of the automatic lists function is that when you want to
change to another level in your outline, you must click on the
paragraph,
then click on the appropriate style in your outline.
Note that if the insertion point is in a paragraph to which you've
applied a
style, that is part of an outline, you should be able to use
Alt+Shift+Left/Right arrow to promote/demote items in the list.
--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP
in message
Keith, all you have to do to make your Headings styles chain from one
to
the
other (instead of reverting to Normal style on the next line) is to
modify
the style so that the "style for following paragraph" for Heading 1 is
Heading 1 instead of Normal. Heading 2 should follow Heading 2, and so
on.
Caution, however: if you press Enter at the end of a number-styled
line
of
text and then press Enter again before typing anything, your paragraph
number
"goes away; the next paragraph may still be styled as whatever number
style
you're using, but the numbers themselves can disappear. If that
happens,
just click on the style in the Style window and when the Modify style
window
opens, click on the box next to "Reapply the formatting of the style to
the
selection," and your number will come back.
Using the Automatic lists function in Word does allow you to tab or
shift+tab back and forth between the levels of your numbering, but
automatic
list numbers are not as stable as when you apply styles to each level
of
your
numbered outline. And the only thing you surrender by using
auto-numbered
styles instead of the automatic lists function is that when you want to
change to another level in your outline, you must click on the
paragraph,
then click on the appropriate style in your outline. But it's a small
price
to pay for an outline that's stable, no matter how long your document
is.
And with the Quick Styles sets sitting right on the Ribbon (under the
Home
tab), it's plenty convenient to move from one numbered style to the
next.
Cyndie Browning
Tulsa, OK
:
Office 2007 has an Online training session. When you do the training
session
for lists, it has a session for multilevel lists. It downloads a file
to
your computer to practice creating a Multilevel list using the planets
as
a
sample. It does not work as expected.
When the level uses header styles, pressing enter after a line drops
down
a
line and selects the normal style.
Another user had the same problem. It is related to the Multilevel
list
using Headers as a level. The default action after a header when
pressing
enter is to go to the next line and change to the normal style. This
kicks
you out of a multilevel list.
