Mac Forum / Applications / Word / May 2008

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Hi Rob -

Help throughout the Office 2008 suite is admittely weak at present, but the
folks at MacBU are quite diligently reworking it. You'll notice incremental
improvement in the on line Help content over time. However, this particular
issue isn't specific to bulleted lists, it's an aspect of  the Style.
Realistically, no Help (or printed manual) will ever cross-reference every
conceivable correlation of features & settings - especially in a program as
complex as Word. Unfortunately, that certainly does make it more difficult
for those who haven't come to understand how the program actually works.

There was no comment made whatsoever about productivity enhancement. But
since you broached the subject, I don't see where your preference is any
better:-) In fact, it's actually your technique that has to be repeated for
each bulleted list in each document. Removing the check is just a somewhat
different location in which to make the setting change to the style applied.
Once modified it affects all lists in that document formatted with the same
style.

If productivity is your concern you might want to learn to use Styles in
order to develop List styles to your own specifications so that no
adjustment at all would be required when the style was applied, rather than
relying on a convenience feature in the first place. Having the Style
available in any appropriate template (including Normal) would obviate the
need to ever make the adjustment again.

I really have no idea what you are talking about??  You are not the original
poster of the original question?

The controls you describe are unchanged since Word 2004?

I'm missing something here...

On 29/04/08 11:10 PM, in article ee99dd6.1@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, "Rob
Milner" <rmilner@psu.edu> wrote: