B
Bruce
I have, with great effort, learned to use styles for
document organization. The effort comes mostly, I think,
from the fact that styles can be a very good way of
managing documents, but manual formatting and toolbar
buttons have sabotaged much of the good work. Too bad the
departments at Micorosft were not in communication with
each other.
I have learned how to deal with most of the instability
and bugs in numbering, but this one has me stumped. I
have a document with a heading style in bold font and a
text style in regular font. Neither is based on a built-
in style, which I ignore rather than spend time trying to
tame them. I cannot find a style-based way of adding a
numbered list. I do not want to use the default tab, but
I cannot scare it away. It works as long as I have only
one numbered list, but a second numbered list later in the
document cannot be made to start again at 1 without losing
the custom formatting I have attempted to apply to the
numbering style. Specifically, the tab reverts to an
apparently predetermined setting. The style dialog box
for numbering does not allow for restarting the
numbering. When I attempt to do so manually (Format >
Bullets and Numbering) I lose the formatting as described
above.
I am using Word 2000, and I seem to remember that this
problem is among the bugs in the numbering system, but I
cannot find how to fix it. If necessary I will go with
what it will give me, but if I could shrink the space
between the number and the text it would prevent quite a
few of one-word second lines. Maybe I need to use a space
instead of a tab in the numbering options? By the way, I
have tried both plain numbering and outline numbering in
the numbered style.
document organization. The effort comes mostly, I think,
from the fact that styles can be a very good way of
managing documents, but manual formatting and toolbar
buttons have sabotaged much of the good work. Too bad the
departments at Micorosft were not in communication with
each other.
I have learned how to deal with most of the instability
and bugs in numbering, but this one has me stumped. I
have a document with a heading style in bold font and a
text style in regular font. Neither is based on a built-
in style, which I ignore rather than spend time trying to
tame them. I cannot find a style-based way of adding a
numbered list. I do not want to use the default tab, but
I cannot scare it away. It works as long as I have only
one numbered list, but a second numbered list later in the
document cannot be made to start again at 1 without losing
the custom formatting I have attempted to apply to the
numbering style. Specifically, the tab reverts to an
apparently predetermined setting. The style dialog box
for numbering does not allow for restarting the
numbering. When I attempt to do so manually (Format >
Bullets and Numbering) I lose the formatting as described
above.
I am using Word 2000, and I seem to remember that this
problem is among the bugs in the numbering system, but I
cannot find how to fix it. If necessary I will go with
what it will give me, but if I could shrink the space
between the number and the text it would prevent quite a
few of one-word second lines. Maybe I need to use a space
instead of a tab in the numbering options? By the way, I
have tried both plain numbering and outline numbering in
the numbered style.