Bullets and Numbering in bl**dy Word

[Bus429]

Does anyone understand "Bullets and Numbering"? Why does the "Auto Format" suddenly go haywire as one types a list?

[matelot]

Often it's easier just to turn off bullets and numbering. It can be an absolute pain. Tab in and insert manually, then it WON'T go haywire.

[Bus429]

Thanks, Matelot

[Keef]

It's one of the bits they got horribly wrong. There probably is a way to fix it, but I never found it. It'll drive you crazy - just turn it off, and do them manually.

[Background Noise]

Not a word expert by any means but equally fed up with some of its default autoformatting. Go to format, autoformat, options - you then have various tabs to unselect all those auto things like autobulleted lists etc and format like the previous etc.

[Saab Dastard]

Yes, you really have to bludgeon Word to get it to do more than the simplest bulleted list!

Just try doing it within tables, or with multiple indents!

I think that the last version of Wind for Wierdos that did what I wanted rather than what it thought I wanted was Word 95.

Progress?

SD

[Globaliser]

Originally Posted by Saab Dastard

I think that the last version of Wind for Wierdos that did what I wanted rather than what it thought I wanted was Word 95.

There's a reason why my primary word processor is a 1994 copy of WordPerfect for Windows 6.0a. It always produces better-looking work than I can do with Word. Fortunately:-
(a) It still runs in Windows XP. I dread the Windoze system that will no longer allow it to.
(b) Word will reasonably accurately convert it so that I can then share my beautiful documents.

[Gertrude the Wombat]

Originally Posted by Saab Dastard

Yes, you really have to bludgeon Word to get it to do more than the simplest bulleted list!
Just try doing it within tables, or with multiple indents!
I think that the last version of Wind for Wierdos that did what I wanted rather than what it thought I wanted was Word 95.

Not convinced. My recollection is that this feature worked fine in version 6 but got broken in 95 (and never fixed since). ICBW though.

[stickyb]

Format later

I seem to remember having the best and easiest results by typing everything in plain text, then highlighting it, then converting it to a bullet list.