Hi David:
There IS no "Default numbering style" in Word. At least, not in the sense
that you and I would know "Default".
The "Autocorrect" method is a lottery: I never use it because you never know
what you're going to get.
The The Bullets and Numbering buttons on the toolbar are simply the "Last
used format in this document", so again, you are never sure what you are
going to get.
To get this right, you need to:
1) Define paragraph styles for bullets and numbering.
You can have up to nine levels of each, but most people use no more than
five. Best to use the built-in styles List Bullet through List Bullet 5,
and List Number through List Number 5.
2) Define a List Style for the bullets, and a List Style for the numbering.
These need to be multi-level styles.
3) Set a paragraph style at each level of the list style.
Save all of this to your Normal template.
Try that, and get back to us if you need more detail: it's a bit of a fiddle
the first time you do this, until you get used to it.
Then, you simply apply the correct paragraph style to the text, and you will
get the correct bullet or numbering format. If that format does not exist
in the document, Word will bring it in from the template.
But short of using VBA, there's no way to enforce a specific fixed default
style on either bullets or numbering in Word. Even in VBA, it's not at all
easy, and in Word 2008 you can't do it at all.
Hope this helps
I've had a fairly easy time defining the properties of normal.doc in
word 2008. But I still haven't figured out how to change the default
numbering and bulleting (list) style tha begins when I either start a
list by typing a number, or select the list from the formating
toolbar.
I have created several cutom list styles in the bullets and numbering
dialogue, and have added them to the template. But I'd like to not
have to open this every time I want to make a list in the style I use
90% of the time.
thanks!
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