Formatting lists

[JulieG]

Can someone help.

I followed Shauna's instructions for formatting bullet styles 'List Bullet
to List Bullet 5' and this worked a treat. I've now been informed this is not
what the user wants.

Here goes

They want a Bullet with a black dot set at a pre-defined indent, when they
click the indent icon they want it to indent that line and the symbol stay
the same. They also want an alpha list (a) formatted as above and a Roman
list(i) again the same, so when they select Roman and then hit indent it
stays roman and moves in

All I get when I try is either the bullet flying out to the left when I
indent and the symbol changing, or flying right and the symbol changing. I've
been through an re-set all styles and started again but still can't get it to
work.

Please, please help.
Julie

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I think you need either three separate outline-numbered lists (all levels
having the same bullet) or a single style with each bullet that can just be
indented and keep the same symbol. This seems to be the way Word works
natively (though not very well), so it's what people are used to.

If they're needing to restart numbering in any of the numbered lists,
outline numbering is a must (though it's hard to see how that's going to
work). I don't have a way to test indenting on my machine (have removed the
toolbar buttons and reassigned the Ctrl+M shortcut), but if you enable the
appropriate Options setting, you can use Tab and Shift+Tab to indent and
outdent (and of course Alt+Shift+Left/Right Arrow always work).