Word 2004 problems with bulleting, outline numbered, and tab

[Heather K]

When I installed Word 2004 on my mac (running 10.3.5), the first
bullet level that appears when you "turn on" bulleting using the icon
in the menu bar is a grayed-out square that does not print when the
document is printed. The subsequent "bullet levels" all work. I have
tried customizing this first bullet to be as close to a dot as I can
find in the customization options, but the problem is that these
customized bullets sometimes read differently when my PC colleagues
open up my documents, and I'd like to keep my documents pretty
conservative and not have strange symbols show up. The funny part is
that if I just go with the grayed out square, it shows and prints off
a PC as the traditional dot. Is there any way that I can turn my
grayed out square back into the classic bullet-dot that I know and
love?

Secondly, when using the outline-numbered feature, which I use quite a
bit, I used to be able to advance to the next level using the tab key.
Now, I hit return to take me to the next line, and when I hit tab, the
character no longer automatically indents and becomes the appropriate
subsection. It just stays as the next number in the series, lined up
underneath the previous line (the tab causes an indent of the cursor,
of course). When I use the promote/demote buttons, the characters
advance properly, but this is a waste of time. How do I fix this
problem?

Thank you.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Partial response:
In Word | Preferences, Edit tab, check the setting for "use tabs and
backspace to set indent level". See if that helps.

Not sure about your first problem....
DM

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Heather:

You need to make the change in the Format>Bullets and Numbering dialog.

Click in a bulleted paragraph, then go to Format>Bullets and Numbering.

Highlight each sample in turn and hit RESET. Do them all, then exit Word
(to force a save of the changes). You may need to explicitly OPEN your
Normal template and do the same thing to it.

That should fix it.

Hope this helps

When I installed Word 2004 on my mac (running 10.3.5), the first
bullet level that appears when you "turn on" bulleting using the icon
in the menu bar is a grayed-out square that does not print when the
document is printed. The subsequent "bullet levels" all work. I have
tried customizing this first bullet to be as close to a dot as I can
find in the customization options, but the problem is that these
customized bullets sometimes read differently when my PC colleagues
open up my documents, and I'd like to keep my documents pretty
conservative and not have strange symbols show up. The funny part is
that if I just go with the grayed out square, it shows and prints off
a PC as the traditional dot. Is there any way that I can turn my
grayed out square back into the classic bullet-dot that I know and
love?

Secondly, when using the outline-numbered feature, which I use quite a
bit, I used to be able to advance to the next level using the tab key.
Now, I hit return to take me to the next line, and when I hit tab, the
character no longer automatically indents and becomes the appropriate
subsection. It just stays as the next number in the series, lined up
underneath the previous line (the tab causes an indent of the cursor,
of course). When I use the promote/demote buttons, the characters
advance properly, but this is a waste of time. How do I fix this
problem?

Thank you.

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