I just tested the macro again and I see that it isn't working with lists attached to styles. I don't know why--I have to think about this more. If I remember correctly, it did work in older versions...

I'm glad you got it to work in the user interface. It's the reliable way, apparently. :-)

And, yes, once you have selected bullets (or numbers) by clicking them you can apply font formatting to them. Note that the entire bullet/number, including any leading or trailing text, must use the same font formatting. Some formatting, such as strike-through, may not be visible, depending on the bullet character chosen.



I'm not sure how you want to use Find and Replace. You can't use it with text included with a bullet or number character, if that's what you're asking.

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I'm trying to change the formatting for the text that's bulleted with a particular bullet, in my case >. But since there's no distinctive style attached to them, I'm trying to find a workaround.

I just tried another: Double click on that bullet to select all bullets of that symbol, apply a new style of the formatting I want. But it doesn't work. The style is only applied to that particular para of the bullet which I clicked and not for all the paras in the doc bulleted with >. =(

You can of course apply a character style to the whole bullet/number (including any leading or trailing text) in a list. That way, you can easily change font settings later, by modifying the style.

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Stefan Blom
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Thanks.

Does it work after the fact? I tried to change the font setting for the character style for that particular bullet symbol, but it does not automatically apply to all other paras with that symbol, unlike when I changed the indent.

I haven't tested this thoroughly, but it should work the way styles work in any other area of the document, that is, if you update the style, text using that style will update automatically.

In particular, note that I haven't tested if this is backward compatible (in case you want to save in Word 97-2003 format).

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