[dba-Tech] automated bullets

Susan - maybe they need to go over the basics of Word paragraph formats to 
really understand what is happening with their bullets.

I would get them to:

- Select the entire block of text where the bullets are
- Use the Ctrl+Q format which will remove ANY paragraph formats in the 
select text.
- Turn on the Show/Hide icon so they can see any tabs / hard returns etc 
they have entered and remove them all.
- Use Format, Paragraph etc to create the bullets.
- Use Format, Paragraph etc. to re-apply the spacing they need (single, 
double or somewhere in between) that they need.

It sounds like they have some extra hard returns that they are not seeing? 
Ot a combination of difft. spacings in there which must be throwing out 
their spacing, so the Ctrl+Q should sort that out.....

And they may need to be reminded that:

- On the lines where they WANT a bullet they should use enter as they enter 
text.
- Where they want a line break but no bullet they should use Shift+enter to 
create a soft return.

hth
Kath

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Susan Harkins" <ssharkins at gmail.com>
To: "DBA Tech List" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 2:45 AM
Subject: [dba-Tech] automated bullets


> Does anyone know if there's a way to control the leading before and after 
> automated bullets in any of the Word applications? I'm just beginning to 
> look around and I've never looked before -- this doesn't sound like 
> something I'm going to find. Here's what I got from the reader (don't know 
> what scrunch-up feature he's talking about though:
>
> "Hey, if you are the 'How do I' guy, then maybe you can do another thing
> that I have trouble with in Powerpoint. It is the space between the
> lines. When there are bullets, sometimes there is lots of space between
> the lines. Sometimes there is much less. I don't know what's causing the
> difference. Doesn't seem to be the font size.
>
> "I know there is a 'scrunch-up' command (and an 'un-scrunch-up'
> counterpart), but you use that more than once or twice and the text
> begins to get obscured."
>
> I probably don't need really specific instructions, but if someone knows 
> how to control this space, please point me in the right direction. Thanks!
>
> Susan H.
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