Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncrwat!53eng1!brian From: brian@53eng1.Waterloo.NCR.COM (Brian W. Gamble) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: MS Word 5.0 and lists Message-ID: <851@ncrwat.Waterloo.NCR.COM> Date: 12 Jul 90 14:13:51 GMT References: <11810@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> Sender: news@ncrwat.Waterloo.NCR.COM Reply-To: brian@53eng1.Waterloo.NCR.COM (Brian W. Gamble) Organization: NCR Canada Ltd, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Lines: 56 Keywords: In article >In article <11810@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> bruno@sdcc10.ucsd.edu (Bruce W. >Mohler) writes: > > >>Does anyone know of an easy way to produce "bullet" or "dash" lists in >>MS Word 5.0? > >> [I'm from the nroff/troff world where you just > >> .BL >> .LI >> item 1 >> .LI >> item 2 >> .LI >> item 3 >> .LE > >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. > >It's not as automatic as TROFF, but it works. > Two cents worth from north of the border: The advise on how to set up a hanging indent and hang a special character on a tab is right on, although I think my version likes a leading zero in the character code. Try a Dingbats "l" in 7 pt for major round bullets or 5 pt for minor round bullets. Cheap trick follows: Name the major bullet style somehing like "B1". Now add a simple macro to the glossary that inserts the special character (pre formatted with font and pt size), then a tab, then calls the Alt B 1 to apply the style tag. Call the macro Control B 1. Ours has additional smarts to go to the start of paragraph, then insert the text. Ours also centers the bullet on a tab stop, but that's just window dressing. Having written NROFF macros, I found writing Word 5.0 macros bloody simple. Using them is even better; just hit three keys for each bullet paragraph, with the curser anywhere in that paragraph. Those who need an example of the macro and stylesheet text should send me EMail with a non-rubber address. Too many requests and I'll post the stuff instead. Almost forgot: I don't work for or with Microsoft, just use and like their products (on the second or subsequent release!).