Hi Rob -
Rob Milner said:
That's for the advice but please note that I had to search the discussion
forum to discover how to do a task that's straightforward in all previous
versions of word. This check box is nowhere described in any obvious place
in the help files related to bulleted lists.
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.
In previous versions I could change paragraph spacing in a bulleted list
directly from the formatting palette, now I have to go into a pull-down
menu EACH time I need to do this task. And this improves productivity how?
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.
