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bullets and numbers visibility - Word

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RobBroekhuis

RobBroekhuis

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Oct 15, 2001
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Hi all,
Another little pesky almost-problem: recently, when I am in a bulleted or numbered list and hit enter to get a new list item, the text is indented, but the bullet or number is not shown. As soon as I type any text, the bullet/number appears. It didn't use to be this way - what did I change? I prefer these things are visible right away.
Rob
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Check under Format>Bullets and Numbering>Numbered and/or Outline Numbered tab(s) and make sure you're not set to "None."
 
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Carrr,
Thanks for your suggestion, but no - the outline numbering scheme is set properly, and the proper numbers appear - but only after I actually start typing the item. I'd prefer the number/bullet appears when the new line is started. Am I making sense?
Rob
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Yes, perfect sense...I just can't seem to recreeate the behavior. For what it's worth, what vintage of Office are you running?
 
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OFC2000, on Win2000. That hasn't changed for over a year, yet until recently I didn't get this odd behavior. An obscure option in Word, most likely?
Rob
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Rob,

Possibly. It's got me flummoxed. I'm running 97, so I'm going to go shanghai a 2000 machine and see what I can see.
 
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I appreciate your help, and am most interested to see if you can reproduce this...
Rob
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