Microsoft Word: Using styles for lists (Part 3: multi-level list styles)
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2024
- The most comprehensive way to create styles for bulleted or numbered lists is to use a list style (sometimes called a multi-level list style). A list style lets you set the format of list markers (bullets or numbers), including the font, size, color, and character--for each level of a list, up to 9 levels. You can also set indentation for each level of the list. Finally, you link each level of your list to an existing paragraph style. The result is that you have extremely precise control over the list, and as a bonus, you can use the same tabbing gestures to move text between levels that you can use for "automatic" lists. Check it out!
Other videos about using styles with lists:
Part 1: Using styles for "automatic" lists (lists you create using the bullet/number buttons in the ribbon)
• Microsoft Word: Using ...
Part 2: Using paragraphs that have bullets or numbers associated with them:
• Microsoft Word: Using ...
After all thses years I finally grasped what and how it works
thank you man🔥
Yay, glad it's helpul!
Mike - these three are the best explainer videos I have ever seen. Please do more. GR8
I'm so glad that you find them helpful!
Absolutely the BEST explanation i've found on lists and Styles. Very easy to understand, although i did have to watch it a couple of times and try it on a separate screen to get the hang of it. Again, the BEST!! thank you for posting this.
Great, I'm glad you have found it useful!
FINALLY! I've been searching for a while to find a video that does this deep of a dive into numbered/multilevel lists and style usage. Thank you so much. And I totally agree with the comment that Microsoft is terrible about explaining advanced uses of anything.
I'm glad you found this useful!
what a lifesaver!
Yay, I'm glad it's helpful!
Wonderful!
yay, glad you liked it!
I spend a lot of time taking a "template" of a construction specification from an architect and trying to apply it to our specifications so they match. IF, and it's a big if, the architect uses multilevel list numbering and/or paragraph styles, I still have terrible luck making ours look right. If there is a "text indent" value in the Multilevel list, and also an indentation value (and usually a hanging indent value) in the linked paragraph style, these two fight each other. I can never cleanly and consistently get this right. Sometimes I resort to format painting, sometimes I "get lucky" but there just does not seem to be a consistent way to get this to look right.
Do indents and hanging indents in paragraph styles get entered automatically via the indentations settings from the numbered list? I've read through the "holy grail" of this topic, the late Shauna Kelly's website. But she (correctly) shows how to create new numbering and styles as you do - but I do not have time to constantly start from scratch. I'm taking a "boilerplate" specification outline (sadly seven levels deep - it's badly written) and having to adapt the indentations, fonts, sizes, font appearance, numbering style (1.1 vs 1.01, etc), and the number list indentation as well as the text indentation to match what the architect wants for a particular project. THAT'S where things continually blow up.
That's a thorny one. I definitely think the hanging indent (specifically) in the para style conflicts with the tabbing that the multi-level list style wants to do to separate the list marker from the text. But I don't know how (in what order) these are applied, or whether they're additive, or what. If you have no hanging indents at all in the para styles--just normal indent for the para as a whole--can you get it to work?
Also, my sympathies for having to work with, mmm, casual use of styles.
@@mikepope718 I appreciate the response. I’ll experiment to see if we can let go of hanging indents. Besides having dubiously “formatted templates” to deal with - Word itself (well, likely Microsoft writ large) is terrible about explaining advanced uses of anything.
One of my friends told me long ago that “Word is one of the most powerful and least intuitive programs ever written” - I try to keep that in mind as we plug along.
Of course, the AIA actually has a standard specification format (that is simple and makes sense) but I’m shocked at how few architects follow it (in 15 years of working with a lot of architects… ONE actually uses the AIA standard).