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Subject:RE: I know why Word is a four letter word From:Mary Jo Dockman <mdockman -at- proofpoint -dot- com> To:Lin Sims <ljsims -dot- ml -at- gmail -dot- com>, John Posada <jposada99 -at- gmail -dot- com> Date:Wed, 20 Nov 2019 18:17:34 +0000
I feel your pain, John!! I used FM for decades and miss the stability of styles, TOC, etc.
Lin - thanks for the link. Maybe this will help me now that I'm in the icky MS Word world where numbering and bullets (well, everything!) go haywire when you least expect it (and usually during crunch time).
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Subject: Re: I know why Word is a four letter word
Hey John,
If you're creating styles for the numbered paragraphs, remember to ALSO create a list style. That's what controls the numbering and indents. (I think you can use SEQ fields also, but I've never gone that route.)
On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 12:58 PM John Posada <jposada99 -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> Hi, guys...after being an FM user for more than 5 years, I feel I'm
> having to learn Word (v2016) all over again.
>
> For the last 3 days, I've been wrestling with styles. In effect, my
> issue is, when I define a style, I want it to stay defined exactly how
> I defined it. I don't want to have it indent on me, If I define a
> bullet with a .25 indent, I want it to STAY indented .25 and not
> change on me. If I make a line a bullet, I don't want the whole F'ing document to turn bullet.
>
> I WISH I could make this place an FM shop, but there is just too much
> document collaboration needed here and even I can't see the overall
> advantage.
>
> Thanks guys.
>
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> John Posada
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