Help with bulletpoints on Microsoft word please...?

Question

Hi all. Basically, whenever i get past 100 items on microsoft word on a bulletpoint list, from the 100th point i get a huge indent for every item after 100, like when you press tab to indent the a line along a page. Whenever i try to delete it, it just deletes the point. This is really frustrating me as it looks horrible, so any help anyone can give would be greatly appreciated. 

Thanks again

Scrawny · Accepted Answer

I assume that you mean a numbered list as I just created a bulleted list of over 100 entries and the last bullet was exactly the same as the first. Numbered lists however have a problem in that as the number becomes larger and thus taking up more space, the tab between the number and the list becomes smaller to the point that the next tab stop may come into play. To get past this, highlight the whole list and move the tab to the right so that the space increases for the smaller numbers (shorter in length) and matches the space created for the larger numbers which should decrease in size so that a compromise space is created. Usually, this space increases as soon as the numbe 10 is reached and doesn't increase from there.

Fred · Answer

I can't tell you why this is happening but I can tell you how to fix it. The Paintbrush, on the Home tab, Clipboard group, copies formatting not content.

When you are finished and have some crazy indents, highlight a complete bullet point including the paragraph marker after it and click on the Paintbrush and then drag over the crazy indents. Magically they will change to the format you copied.

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Help with bulletpoints on Microsoft word please...?

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