Re: Strike Through - Bulleted items - striking bullet?
Suzanne S. Barnhill
selecting the paragraph mark, Word, trying to be helpful, will select it
anyway if you have selected all the text in the paragraph. You have to go
back and select *just* the paragraph mark and remove the formatting.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
"+Bob+" <nomail...@example.com> wrote in message
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> WOrd 2002
>
> I am trying to use "strike through" with a document that contains
> quite a number of bulleted lists. I carefully select the words in the
> bullet and apply strike through. But, it strikes through not only the
> selected text, but also the bullet itself and the empty space between
> the bullet and the text. I've shut of "smart paragraph selection" to
> keep it from grabbing more than I want.
>
> If I do not select the first character in the text, it works fine. It
> also works fine if I select from the start but not the end of the
> text.I've tried turning on the paragraphs markers and making sure that
> the marker is not selected - it isn't. Oddly, if I select several
> bullet items, the one at the bottom (paragraph marker not selected)
> will work fine, all those above have their paragraph markers selected
> and will strike through as noted above.
>
> Any thoughts or techniques to correct this?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
Peter T. Daniels
> On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:38:26 -0600, "Suzanne S. Barnhill"
>
> <sbarnh...@mvps.org> wrote:
> >This is Word outsmarting you again. No matter how carefully you avoid
> >selecting the paragraph mark, Word, trying to be helpful, will select it
> >anyway if you have selected all the text in the paragraph. You have to go
> >back and select *just* the paragraph mark and remove the formatting.
>
>
> Thanks, but I don't think it's that. I've selected with the paragraph
> marks on, and there are not selected. I even tried putting three
> spaces between the end-of-text and the paragraph mark, then selecting
> only the text, leaving the spaces clearly unselected (again, marks
> turned on to confirm) and it still strikes through the bullet.
>
> The only way I've found so far to avoid it is to NOT select the first
> single character in the line. Then, sometimes, I can go back and
> select the first character and strike through it. However, in some
> cases (unpredictable) doing that causes it to strike the bullet again.
Look closely at what Suzanne said: Select _only_ the paragraph mark.
You report that you did exactly the opposite, selecting everything
_but_ the paragraph mark.
Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
"+Bob+" <nomail...@example.com> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:38:26 -0600, "Suzanne S. Barnhill"
> <sbar...@mvps.org> wrote:
>
>>This is Word outsmarting you again. No matter how carefully you avoid
>>selecting the paragraph mark, Word, trying to be helpful, will select it
>>anyway if you have selected all the text in the paragraph. You have to go
>>back and select *just* the paragraph mark and remove the formatting.
>
Suzanne S. Barnhill
What we are trying to tell you is that there is probably no way to avoid
getting the bullet formatted as strikethrough. What you then have to do is
select *just* the paragraph mark and remove the strikethrough formatting
from it. Even if you have very carefully avoided including it in your
original selection, Word will include it anyway, trying to be helpful.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
"+Bob+" <nomail...@example.com> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:20:12 -0600, "Suzanne S. Barnhill"
> <sbar...@mvps.org> wrote:
>
>>Have you tried what I suggested?
>
> I've tried about every possibility out there. I've discovered that
> it's a definite bug. I can easily do exactly what I want in one area
> of the document, yet in another section it always strikes through the
> bullet. The areas are identical as I am using styles for all the
> formatting and even the heading hierarchy is the same.
>
> Thanks anyway,
>
>