Darn bullets again

[Sol Apache]

I have two paragraph styles in a template both with the same bullet except
one is pink and the other is blue.

I have set up two list styles one with pink bullet, the other with blue and
applied this list style as numbering to each of the paragraph styles as
appropriate. Both styles only use level one. Even though they are the same
character I have set up the bullet list to refer to them as different
bullets.

Both paragraphs styles are based on "none" not on one or the other style and
AFAIK the list styles are based on "none" as well (Word does not say)

These styles are used in table cells with different coloured backgrounds -
pale blue or pale pink. The user can change the background and should change
the bullet style as well - if it is a pale blue background the bullet style
should be blue.

The problem arises if the user changes the background colour and clicks on
the bullet paragraph a couple of times. The bullet disappears and the style
changes to have no bullet. I do not have "auto update styles" switched on in
any of the styles or "autoformat as you type" or "autoformat". I have tried
switching on "preserve styles" in the "Autoformat" dialog box but this makes
no difference. Usually one bullet stays for one style, but the other morphs
into having no bullet.

Help!!

 

[John McGhie [MVP Word, Word Mac]]

Hi Sol:

Make sure you have disabled:

1) Click and Type

2) Tools>AutoCorrect>Automattically as you type> most of the options on
that dialog.

However, chances are the problem is that while you have made two Style
definitions, you have done them with the same List Template. Check in
Format>Bullets and Numbering... If the same sample square is highlighted
when you click in each style, you've used the same list template for both,
and that leads to a circular definition and the sort of behaviour you are
reporting.

Hope this helps -- if it's too cryptic get back to me and I will explain in
more detail.

Cheers

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[Sol Apache]

Hi John
I haven't disabled Click and Type (have done so now). However won't that
have to be done on all PCs using this template??

I think I mentioned these in my original post:
1. I have disabled all the relevant things in Tools>autocorrect...
2. I have two separate list definitions for the bullets. One is called pink
bullet list and the other is called blue bullet list. Even though they use
the same character I have added them separately to the bullet list on the
first list dialog box.

Pink and blue bullets, whatever next (it's amazing what people do in
Word?!!)

I have done a workaround (client could not wait) and that is I created a
macro which displays on the style toolbar as a style. It selects the
paragraph style, then the appropriate bullet list style and thus I do not
lose any bullets. At least I haven't done so when I last checked.

 

[John McGhie [MVP Word, Word Mac]]

Hi Sol:

Ick!! I'm sure it works, but it's nasty. Then again, you know that.

Provided the client is working with throw-away documents, it will be quite
stable.

Expect howls of anguish when their documents corrupt if they keep them in
service through more than about ten editing sessions

Cheers

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