Customize Bullet Number Format and Default

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John Smith

How do I make my favorite customized bullet or number format the default
setting?

Word 2003
Windows XP Home

Thanks,

JS
 
Usually, when you choose the Bullet you want from the "Bullets and
Numbering" dialogue (located from Format > Bullets and Numbering), when you
choose that Bullet, Word should automatically set the bullet every time you
select the bullet button from the "Formatting" toolbar.

Andre Da Costa
Jamaica
 
Hi John,
How do I make my favorite customized bullet or number format the default
setting?

Word 2003
Windows XP Home
Click to expand...
There really isn't a good way to change the default. Andre mentions that
the toolbar button will pick up the symbol you used last... In my
experience, this only works semi-reliably within the same document, but as
soon as I open a new document, it tends to revert to the internal default.

The most reliable method I've ever come across is to record setting the
bullet symbol you prefer in a macro. Assign the macro to a toolbar button
(and a keyboard shortcut, if you like) and use it instead of the button
that comes with Word.

Even better would probably be to set up a STYLE that uses the bullet symbol
you prefer, if you're up to styles :-)?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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