Skip Numbering

You're making progress! The Style box is one of the first things we MVPs add
to the QAT as well.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Sherlock" wrote in message
...
A valid point, Suzanne. Skip Numbering doesn't change the name of the
applied
style other than removing the bullet or number, but I haven't tested to
see
if the item with Skip Numbering applied is updated if the style is edited.

I didn't use styles for the first several years I worked with word
processing software and somehow seemed to manage. But in a business
environment, where consistency is important, I can no longer imagine life
without them. I had to put the Style box in my Quick Access Toolbar,
because
I can no longer function unless I can glance and see what style something
is!

Thank you for your replies.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Any solution that does not rely on styles is ultimately going to be more
trouble to use.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Sherlock" wrote in message
...
Thank you, Suzanne.

I still have access to Word 2003, so I tried working with bullets and
numbering in both 2003 and 2007. Applying the List Continue styles only
works
if you are using one of those styles, which makes sense, as you are
applying
a specific style. That approach requires that there be a Continue style
for
every List style. They do not appear to exist by default--Outline
numbering
styles, for example--and in any case, developers would have to create
them
for new bullet and number styles.

If you place your insertion point immediately to the left of the first
letter of text in a list item, after the bullet or number and its
associated
tab, and press the Backspace key, the bullet or number is removed and
the
formatting is retained. This is more cumbersome than clicking a Skip
Numbering button from anywhere in the item, but does result in the same
outcome as 2003's Skip Numbering.

I suppose one solution might be to write a macro that goes to the
beginning
of the paragraph, backspaces, and then returns to the point of origin.
That
could be used on any style, much as Skip Numbering could.

Thank you for your suggestion.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

If you apply numbered styles to your numbered paragraphs, then you can
apply
the corresponding "continue" styles for unnumbered ones. There is a
series
of List Continue styles that, by default, have the same indents as the
default List, List Number, and List Bullet styles.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Sherlock" wrote in message
...
Thank you, Cheryl. Yes, I've used that approach at times. I was just
hoping
to find something that replicates the ability of Skip Numbering to
retain
the
numbered format on a free-standing paragraph with the ease of Skip
Numbering.

Sadly, it looks like that functionality has been removed.

Thanks anyway.

"Cheryl Flanders" wrote:

An easy workaround to add a non-numbered paragraph between items
would
be to press Shift+Enter before that paragraph. For example, Type #1
text and press Shift + Enter to type the next paragraph (twice if
you
want to add a space between text and new paragraph). Press Enter
twice after your non-numbered paragraph and numbering will restart
at
2.

Cheryl

On Jan 19, 8:04 am, Sherlock
wrote:
Thank you, Jetstream, but the unnumbered items do not retain the
formatting
of the numbered items using this method.

If my numbered items are indented from the margin .25 inch with a
hanging
indent of .5 inch for the text and trailing space of 4 pts, then
the
unnumbered items in the middle of the list should be indented .5
inch
with no
hanging indent and have trailing space of 4 pts.

This happened automatically with Skip Numbering, and it didn't
matter
if I
applied Skip Numbering before or after I formatted my paragraphs
as
a
list.