One of the most frustrating things about Word is when you want to set up custom bullet symbols. You first type your lines, and then highlight the lines and click the Bullet Point button at the top of the screen. Now you can highlight lines with subpoints and click the Indent button. Hopefully the lines will slide to the right and acquire a different looking bullet symbol in the process. Or you highlight lines, and move them around with the slider on the ruler, getting everything just right. Except for those bullet symbols.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t often work the way you want. Most likely, when you change the bullet symbol on one line, it also changes the one on the line above! Somehow, they are linked together. And no matter what you do, you can’t unlink them.
Today, to my amazement, I think I figured out how to change only the bullet symbols you want to change. It’s so simple that I never thought of it before today.
Ready? Put your arrow to the left of the line, and click, highlighting the entire line. Now change the bullet symbol. Amazingly, only the one you have highlighted will change.
I’m looking forward to trying this out in Word 2010 and 2007.
with Windows 10 running in a remote session on my file server
