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Old 02-19-2013, 11:41 PM
gopher_everett gopher_everett is offline At wit's end trying understand styles for numbering/bullet levels in MS Word Windows 7 64bit At wit's end trying understand styles for numbering/bullet levels in MS Word Office 2007
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Hello,



Can someone explain (with specific steps please) how to make changes (to any one or more of the nine available numbering/bullet levels in MS Word 2007) including:

• font
• font size
• font color
• indentation spacing from margin to number/bullet
• spacing after number/bullet but before text
• indentation spacing from margin to 2nd line (i.e. hanging, word wrap)
• from numbers at to bullets (at some but not all levels) and vice versa
• whatever else I have not included

and do it in such a way that those changes:

1) are applied to any existing/previous lines already at that level (if possible),
2) will be applied to new lines (i.e. created, promoted, demoted, pasted) at that level,
3) preserve the auto-numbering functionality (as it is present in default numbering)
4) do not affect levels, text or formatting, etc., at any other level.

I have been going berserk trying to: define new multilevel list levels, make changes in list styles, create new styles, link multilevel levels to existing styles and new styles, avoid confusing myself with "paragraph settings" and boxes such as "aligned at" & "Additional indent for each level" (i.e. wondering if they are absolute or relative values, etc.).

I've been to over a dozen sites via Google searches (several times thinking, "Aha, that's what I was doing wrong" but then realizing that what I was doing wrong was thinking that I had discovered what I was doing wrong). And I even went so far as to create the attached PowerPoint diagram to try to keep things straight.

In a nutshell, "AAARRRGGGHHH!!!"

If you're still with me, thanks for abiding the rant — but I do feel much better now. :P Am I the only person that is completely confused by this topic? If someone could walk me through it or even point me to yet another online answer but one that covers everything (clearly), I would be extremely grateful.

Many thanks.

PS I could not even figure out how to use the numbering and bullets on this post so I had to insert them manually. (I'm really glad no one knows my true identity [because I'd be really embarrassed facing the people at work] but here's a hint: my initials are WHG [III] and many years ago, I founded a company called Microsoft.)
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Old 02-20-2013, 01:37 AM
eNGiNe eNGiNe is offline At wit's end trying understand styles for numbering/bullet levels in MS Word Windows 7 32bit At wit's end trying understand styles for numbering/bullet levels in MS Word Office 2010 64bit
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It's a mysterious area, to put it mildly, though there are paradigms in other products that make multiple levels of bullets, numbering, auto-restart based on preceding heading and even text prefixes a joy and satisfaction to work with.

Remaining on focus for this forum, though, I'd suggest you go straight to Shauna Kelly's unbeatable web-site at http://www.shaunakelly.com/ Thanks to her clear instructions, I managed to get automatic, level-driven numbering for headings set up in minutes. I gave up on trying to combine style-driven numbering with left indents, though ;-}
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Old 02-20-2013, 06:41 AM
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As mentioned above, http://www.shaunakelly.com/word is an excellent source in finding the answers to basic through complex MSWord problems and covers mulltiple versions of MSWord. The trick is being patient, following instructions and working through your problems (which appear to be "style" related).

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Finally, I feel like I am making some headway!

Thanks to both of you for your feedback. www.ShaunaKelly.com is one of the multiple sites which I had gone to previously. However, after getting the same suggestion from both of you, I went there again and this time, I went through each step meticulously. That led to some lightbulbs going on and now I feel like, at the least, I've got my foot in the door. That's a good thing because I don't really have any more hair to pull out!

Please enjoy your weekend knowing that this MS Word-er will be enjoying his.

Thanks again.
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