[dba-Tech] automated bullets

There's a lot of good ideas here Kath -- thanks!

Susan H.


> 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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