Have numbered lists caused you trouble in the past? Will any of these tips help you going forward? I would love to hear from you! Congratulations, Power Users!Ĭongratulations to our newest Power Users! For the full gallery, and more information about the WSU Microsoft Office Power User Program, please visit: wichita. Maybe Roman numerals?īy the way, how do you change your mind and promote a sub point back to being a main point? Well, you could use the Decrease Indent (left arrow) in the Paragraph group…īut you all know I am a fan of shortcuts, and my favorite one for this purpose is shift + tab. If the alphabet isn’t your goal, you can always click into the text in the line of a or b, go the numbered list dropdown in the Paragraph group of the Home tab, and select a different format. This has created sub points, and Word assumed that you would like to indicate sub points with lowercase alphabet: To demote them to sub point click to the left of “Our Friends,” and hit tab on your keyboard. In the last section, numbers 4 and 5 should be sub points of number 3.
Look at the second section of words, starting with “Brouhaha.” It is clear that this list should not be starting over it should be a continuation of the previous list.
This file contains a fascinating list of silly words laid out in series of numbers lists.
To follow along, you may download the exercise file: NumberedLists Don’t despair these little inconveniences are remarkably simple to fix. They usually work seamlessly and automatically, but sometimes these lists can work against us: restarting a list of numbers at 1 when we mean to continue our list, or picking up formatting that we can’t seem to shake, like creating all bold numbers in spite of unbold text. Automated numbered lists are a feature a lot of us take for granted in Microsoft Word….