

To add a bullet to the text, do ctrl-Shift-L (that's ctrl-Shift-lowercase L, which stands for List Bullet). Quick, fast, safe, reliable, effective, low-fat, low-carbohydrate, low-carbon emission way to bullet a paragraph If you're a keyboard person And, it makes it very easy to apply and control bullets, and to change bulleted paragraphs from one level of indent to the next. The huge advantage of setting up your bullets in the way described here is that it puts you in charge, not Word! It is stable and reliable. If you want to change the look of the bullets or use multiple-levels of bullets, it will take about 3 minutes to get control of bullets. It will take you about 10 seconds to get one level of bullets working well. The key is to use Word's built-in List Bullet Styles.
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This page describes how to control bullets in Word. You constantly seem to be re-setting the indents, or re-applying the bullets, or the bullets change size. Managing bullets in anything but the simplest of Microsoft Word documents can easily drive you crazy. The styles will manage the bullets and the indents.
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)Įdited by FrustratedCynical, 28 January 2011 - 09:39 AM.Quick reference to controlling bullets in Word (I have to go to work now-I will explain more of what I found later.

How do I get Word to always show all graphics regardless of whatever "layer"(?) they are on, especially if they are transparent and covering something else? Is there an easy way to do steps 1 to 6 over-and-over again quickly, please?ī. In the bottom-left corner of the next menu-box is a "Remove Frame" button-click that and you get the formatted text at the paragraph symbol in #2!Ī. Right-click the mouse a pop-up menu opens, click the choice "Frame Options" near the bottom of choices.Ħ. Move your cursor to the edge of the frame until it becomes a crosshair cursor (the cursor you get if you were going to drag-and-drop clip-art).ĥ. Click on the text so the frame is outlined.Ĥ. Make sure there is a paragraph symbol somewhere on the page before the frame of text (the text-box like thingy) you want to "convert".ģ. Turn on formatting marks in the document.Ģ. I still need help but I found 1 part of the solution!ġ. Please write if you have questions or answers!Įdited by FrustratedCynical, 27 January 2011 - 09:37 PM. (if possible) to make refomatting easier on me & Mrs FC after getting just the words? I don't know what frames are but they are in the way, and I don't need the old page numbers, or headers, or etc., but how do I get the words and still know what bits of the words are titles, chapters, italics, etc. I don't want the text-box things and I need to change the font anyway-what should I do to get the text and have as little formatting as possible to do after? How do I remove the frames but keep the text with its font-sizes and indents?

How do I remove the frames and keep the formatted text? I think the frame-things are the biggest problem and I don't quite know the 'correct' question to ask, so here are a couple other possibile questions that might help someone find the answer I need: In Word '07 (or Office '07), how do I move (or convert?) the text within the frames to formatted text in documents, please? well, regular word-processing files without the frames.
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rtfs) created by ocr software and all the text seems to be in text-box like things called 'frames'. I have some personal documents (about 100 pages in a few. I hope this is an easy question for a change.
