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From: pentch@milton.u.washington.edu (Dean Pentcheff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MS Word 5.0 and lists
Summary: Don't forget glossaries.
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Date: 12 Jul 90 15:01:18 GMT
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Reply-To: pentch@u.washington.edu (Dean Pentcheff)
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Organization: Department of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley
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>>Does anyone know of an easy way to produce "bullet" or "dash" lists in
>>MS Word 5.0?
>
>Word 5.0 doesn't have anything built in to do lists like TROFF.  You
>can create them manually by typing each item as a seperate paragraph
>with 0 lines before and after.  Then if you put the cursor on column 1
>of each list item, hold down the ALT key, type 249 or 250 (this
>depends on the font you've chosen and the printer you use), and
>release the ALT key, you'll have your bullet.  Hit a tab and the text
>indents.

Note that you can ease this process by having a glossary entry named
"bullet" (or some such) which consists of the bullet character.  To
create such an entry, do the following: 
1) Generate a bullet character in the text by holding down the ALT key
	and typing 249 or 250 on the keypad (while holding down ALT!).
2) Put the cursor on top of the bullet.
3) Press: ESC Copy
4) Fill in the glossary name for your bullet (e.g. "bullet"), then
	press RETURN.
5) From then on, just type "bullet", then press F3 and you'll get a 
	bullet in your text.

-Dean

-- 
Dean Pentcheff  (pentch@u.washington.edu)
Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley CA 94720
Presently at:  Friday Harbor Labs, 620 University Rd., Friday Harbor, WA 98250