Hi Mark:
In Word, formatting is stored in Styles. Styles are named collections of
formatting. To control the formatting, you should apply a style to your
text, then update the formatting to your tastes.
In your case, start by using the style named List Bullet, which already has
bullets defined, all you have to do is update it.
Shauna has an excellent introduction here:
http://word.mvps.org/mac/MacWordNormal.html
When you Paste, Word 2004 automatically keeps the formatting of the source.
It pops up a little floating toolbar that enables you to change that after
the paste.
If you prefer to have the pasted text adopt the formatting of the
destination text, you can use Edit>Paste Special to paste as Plain Text,
which discards the source formatting.
If you want that to have this happen every time, here are two macros you can
use. If you rename the first one to "EditPaste()" it will replace your
normal pasting command.
I then use a different keystroke to fire the second macro, named
"PasteNormal" when I want a fully-formatted pasteing.
Sub PastePlainText()
'
' Macro1 Macro
' Macro recorded 20/12/00 by John McGhie
'
On Error GoTo JustPaste
If (Selection.Type = wdSelectionIP Or _
Selection.Information(wdWithInTable) = False) Then
Selection.PasteSpecial DataType:=wdPasteText
Else
PasteNormal
End If
End
JustPaste:
Selection.Paste
End Sub
Sub PasteNormal()
Selection.Paste
End Sub
Hello -
I have a couple of questions related to default formatting in Word
'04:
1) How can I change the default bullet that appears when I use a
bulleted list?
2) When I copy and paste text from a web site into Word, it is
automatically formatted to Verdana 13pt. Is there a way to change
this to a different defauly font/size?
Thanks,
Mark
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