Styles with Customized Bullets - Not imported from template?

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I'm working on some templates someone else developed where, for notes
cautions, etc, they set up a style (example, "Note"), where that style in
the Numbering->Bulleted tab has a customized bullet consists of some fixed
text (for example, Bullet).

However, when such a template is applied against an existing document, the
new style appears but doesn't have the customized bullet. This happens even
if an existing style of the same name is first deleted from the document.

If an new document is created based on the template, the customized bullets
work fine.

Any hints/help appreciated,

P.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I suspect that the "numbering" is not actually linked to the style. The only
way you can do this is in an outline-numbered list; clicking More in that
dialog allows you to link specific numbering to a style; see
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numbering/OutlineNumbering.html and
http://www.ShaunaKelly.com/word/bullets/controlbullets.html

 

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I suspect that the "numbering" is not actually linked to the style. The
only
way you can do this is in an outline-numbered list; clicking More in that
dialog allows you to link specific numbering to a style; see
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numbering/OutlineNumbering.html and
http://www.ShaunaKelly.com/word/bullets/controlbullets.html

Thanks, Suzanne; that was very useful; I scrapped the old numbering/bullets
and implemented new styles based on the info on those pages.

One side-effect of using outline numbering for bullets and lists is that
they now appear in the Document Map, even only showing Heading 1 level
styles. Is there a way of stopping this so I only see headlings?

Thanks,

P.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

My guess is that you based your numbered styles on one of the examples that
use headings styles, which have a built-in TOC outline level. If you use
styles that have an outline level of Body Text, you should not see them in
the Document Map. Note that the TOC outline levels, which are a paragraph
property (Format | Paragraph) are entirely separate from the outline
numbering levels, which are a numbering property.

 

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My guess is that you based your numbered styles on one of the examples
that
use headings styles, which have a built-in TOC outline level. If you use
styles that have an outline level of Body Text, you should not see them in
the Document Map.

Hi Suzanne,

I checked and even thought they have a Body Text outline settings, they
still show up; for example, my List Bullet style.

Shauna's guide advises that when setting up nested bullets, you should
always use a list template from the "Outline Numbered" list gallery tabbed
page. Do all those list templates have an outline numbering level or only
some? If the former, I'm assuming there is no way of creating nested bullets
point styles using her advised method without them showing up in the doc
map? If the latter, then how do I tell list templates with no outline
numbering level from those that do?

Thanks in advance,

P.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I'm on kind of shaky ground here because I rarely use the Document Map. I
know it has a nasty habit of promoting paragraphs from Body Text to a
heading level, and that may be what's happening. I do know that you can
certainly associate numbering levels with Body Text-level paragraphs. See if
the information in http://word.mvps.org/faqs/general/DocumentMap.htm or
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/documentmap/index.html helps.