word acting weirdly after modification of a style

[Associates]

Hi,

I have a question in regards to the number/bullet points in word application
and wonder if anyone might be able to help me out.

What i have done is that i have modified the "List Number 2" style in word
to suit my needs. And word allows me to do that. What does not work is that
it does not return to Normal style from List Number 2.

For example, I want to add only two items on the list as shown below. I want
to get out of the list when i have finished inserting two items.

Here is the list of numbers below
1. mylist1
2. mylist2

Usually, it will say "3." as soon as i hit "enter" key and if i hit the key
again, the "3. " will become just like a new blank line. And then, to get rid
of those two blank lines, i press "backspace" key twice. Having done that,
word usually will go back to Normal style - ready to take in some texts. Hope
i still have every reader with me so far.

But this is not the case to me, it does not go back to Normal style but stay
on that "List Number 2" style. Is there any ways of getting around this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance

 

[Stefan Blom]

Pressing Enter twice in a numbered list removes the numbering, but it
doesn't actually change the paragraph style. Instead of pressing the Enter
key, just press Ctrl+Shift+N, which will apply the Normal style to the
paragraph containing the insertion point.

 

[Associates]

Thank Stefan for your reply.

That's great. I did not know that there was such a shortcut key
(ctrl+Shift+N) to revert the whatever style back to Normal. But if i want to
automate this - which means the word would immediately execute the shortcut
key as soon as it detects that the Enter key has been pressed twice and it's
time to change to Normal style in VBA codes. Wonder if this is a possible
thing to do. I mean i can educate users about that if there is no other
choices left for me to have. This is the last resort. But i would prefer this
can be done without user's intervention.

Thank you in advance

 

[Stefan Blom]

I don't know if it can be automated; you'll have to ask in a programming
newsgroup such as microsoft.public.word.vba.general to find out.

On the other hand, teaching users to press Ctrl+Shift+N shouldn't require
too much effort, one would think...

 

[Stefan Blom]

I don't know if it can be automated; you'll have to ask in a programming

newsgroup such as microsoft.public.word.vba.general to find out.

Well, apparently you already did ask in such a group. What I meant to
write was that I don't know the answer to that.

 

[Associates]

Yes, you're right. I think i have asked this question before and am pretty
sure that it's been a while since i asked. And if i am not mistaken and from
my memory, that question has not yet been answered. I will try to do a search
in that forum.

Thanks again for your time and effort in answering my question

 

[krzma]

I know what you're talking about... in Word 2003 it used to go automatically
back to Normal style... which was very handy... but it doesn't do it in 2007.
I think it's a bug. I hope the MS people read these threads because it was
a great feature that sped up the process.

I have a shortcut key set for all my styles, but there are weird things that
happen in 2007 like this point you raised. I found your post because I hoped
someone had a solution to it.

.... once you backspace until the bullet is gone... it should revert back to
its base style... which is probably "Normal"

ANOTHER big pain is that the tabs aren't remembered by the styles... I'll
try saving the styles in different ways and save the quickstyles and set them
as the default... but then the tabbing problem comes back... it's like no one
is testing their software.

The whole style sheet system needs to be streamlined into a *common* user
interface instead of buttons and miniwindows here and there... and
"...options"

It's very annoying. Test your product. Do some user studies! Pay
attention to the details.