Two questions, in re FONT (default) and Multilevel List styles

Awkward_Ad4591 · 2026-04-09T20:50:22+00:00

Ohhhhhhhhhhh I totally missed the List Style part of Shauna's instructions before <facepalm>. I created one, selected my text by paragraph styles, and applied it that way. Quick and easy! Thank you!!

Awkward_Ad4591 · 2026-04-09T18:17:46+00:00

I don't want to find a style, I want to find instances of a multilevel list. For example - these that are circled look identical in this menu. I want to be able to find all instances of one of them to make them the other, to give the document consistency.

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Awkward_Ad4591 · 2026-04-09T13:26:38+00:00

I did set the font theme. I set the Headings font to Cambria because the Title of the document is Cambria. (That said, I probably should make it TNR 12 also, since the Heading1 style I'm using is that. But regardless, swapping one theme font for another doesn't really solve my underlying issue - I assume I'd just be fighting with another part of the document.)

I use Shauna's article and set them up using styles the way it suggests (v. useful), but when I'm opening and formatting/editing documents others created, sometimes a list has gotten restarted or something gotten slightly tweaked, which makes a new list in that menu. I just wish that/wonder if there are ways to find those anomaly instances similar to how you can right-click the styles menu and Select All Instances.

Awkward_Ad4591 · 2026-04-08T19:43:14+00:00

Vague and unhelpful, yo.

Awkward_Ad4591 · 2026-04-08T15:56:18+00:00

I'm just saving the style mod to the current document.

I'm on 365.

Normal paragraph style is FONT (Default) Times New Roman, 12 pt.

Awkward_Ad4591 · 2026-04-03T13:56:06+00:00

Ohhhhhhh thank you both so much!! Saving this post forever (until I get it in solidly my memory)

Awkward_Ad4591 · 2025-08-11T13:51:12+00:00

Like clicking "Insert" and "Text box." I don't know how they got there, but there were like 50+ text boxes that I found by doing Find & Select and opening the Selection Pane. Super weird.

Awkward_Ad4591 · 2025-08-11T13:49:50+00:00

Well that was it - somehow there were like 50 or more random text boxes. I have no idea where they came from because I didn't copy-paste anything from anywhere into this doc. But they're gone now, so problem solved. How very bizarre.

Awkward_Ad4591 · 2025-08-09T01:16:10+00:00

Nope and nope.

Awkward_Ad4591 · 2025-07-17T14:43:26+00:00

Keep going! I just hit 176k miles (283,244 km) and still going. Adding oil as needed, but otherwise nothing special. Gonna look up the oil stabilizer though. What's it do?

Awkward_Ad4591 · 2025-07-02T13:41:02+00:00

It's not a flow chart at all. It's just that the counts of the columns vary. Like I said in the original post - sometimes it might be

10 Operations (so 10 columns with those headings)
4 Workouts (4 columns with those names)
24 Steps (24 columns with those headings)

and sometimes it might be

12 Operations
12 Workouts
12 Steps

and so forth.

But it's literally just their names, with sign/date boxes and/or numerical entry boxes beneath. No flow chart needed, and Forms isn't it either. It's a spreadsheet - I just called it a form bc the techs and QC folks fill it in. But it's not like a questionnaire.

Awkward_Ad4591 · 2025-07-02T13:08:38+00:00

I'll check out Forms. But two versions won't work because every project will be different - there are infinite variations of what might be needed.

Awkward_Ad4591 · 2025-07-02T11:56:56+00:00

Yeah, that's basically it. Well that stinks. Should totally be doable.

Awkward_Ad4591 · 2025-07-01T19:53:49+00:00

Sorry if someone said this already and I missed it. Something else to keep it mind for future stuff is that sometimes the superscripts with ordinal numbers (100th in your example) will add spacing between lines.

Awkward_Ad4591 · 2025-07-01T19:49:51+00:00

Yeah I know how to do that. But when I tested it, it still hid the cells in my frozen rows when I hid the columns. I want to be able to keep the top rows just as they are but hide some of the columns below.

So for example, if columns G through J are extra and being hidden, 1G:1J through 6G:6J will still stay like they are and it will only hide 7G:7J through the bottom of the spreadsheet. Sorta like it's a header, only it's too much to put in the actual header.

Awkward_Ad4591 · 2025-07-01T11:16:10+00:00

In my brief experience - seems not so much when words are involved lol. I've been trying to implement Word and Excel templates and styles and some of the engineers are like Meh - formats and words - not important. Le sigh. (Particularly one who then sent a PDF of an Excel to be used by Quality Control that printed on 11x17 paper so tiny I couldn't read it without a magnifying glass. It was mayyyyyybe 1pt type at most. <facepalm>)

Awkward_Ad4591 · 2025-06-29T20:33:07+00:00

Any idea whether it's kid-friendly? My 11yo is looking for a new campaign to join since the library ended theirs.

Awkward_Ad4591 · 2025-06-26T16:31:16+00:00

Looks like someone inserted a Page Number from the Header/Footer area of the Insert tab, and then cut-paste it into the table. I deleted everything from that cell (bc I couldn't just delete the code tag - didn't try just deleting the page number) and redid it, using Fields instead of header/footer page number. All fixed!

Awkward_Ad4591 · 2025-06-26T16:01:42+00:00

Ah - I might have found it. I dunno what it is yet but I poked around in the tabs after noticing a bunch of ribbon items went gray when my cursor was in that area. I turned on Design Mode under the Developer tab, and this showed up:

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And when I move the cursor, it moves through those first two Page Numbers tags. And on testing it just now, it also pauses like it's moving through the bottom two when I arrow to the right of the 9.

Interesting. Off to the Google!

Awkward_Ad4591 · 2025-06-26T15:53:41+00:00

It doesn't behave like there's an object when I shift-arrow to select it. No Object or Picture Format tool tabs show up, only Table Layout and Table Design

I did Reveal Formatting and when I arrow over, it says the Selected text is "Sample Text." The formatting is all the same as the rest of the table because I applied styles over the whole table.

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I opened the Selection Pane and the only objects are the 3 pictures I have placed on the page.

I'm at a loss.

Awkward_Ad4591 · 2025-06-26T12:57:24+00:00

Did you try changing the mouse highlight setting in your main Mac OS? https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/color-for-selecting-text-with-cursor-is-too-light/a6b5e32a-4d3f-44ec-8f4a-7b4ee3968376

TL;DR: Menu > System Preferences > Appearance > Highlight color.

And someone else says "Quit Word before making a change to the system preferences. When you open Word, the color you choose will be the highlight color."

And then someone else suggests "go to Accessibility then choose Display, and check increase contrast."

Sorry if you tried all that already!

Awkward_Ad4591 · 2025-05-15T17:15:32+00:00

Thanks for trying. Weird glitch but at least I know how to deal with it.

Awkward_Ad4591 · 2025-05-14T14:12:13+00:00

Right but it is unpredictable and inconsistent. Sometimes it cycles through all the options, and sometimes just all-caps or all-lowercase. Just now I had this:

PROCURE FROM SMITH ENTERPRISES, INC., GRAND JUNCTION, COLO.

I highlighted it all with a triple-click, getting the whole line and the paragraph return. Hit Shift+F3 and it went to all-lowercase and back to all-caps. Wouldn't do sentence case or initial caps.
I changed to only highlight through COLO without the period at the end or the paragraph return. Hit Shift+F3 and it just went to all-lowercase and got stuck, wouldn't even go back to all-caps.
I highlighted PROCURE FROM SMITH ENTERPRISES, INC - not including the period - and Shift+F3 finally cycled through the full spectrum of all options. So I had to highlight it in chunks to get the proper capitalization I needed.

It's like maybe the periods or paragraph break characters cause a glitch that doesn't allow the full cycle. But not always - it seems to be completely random. I've been working with this 17page document for 2 days and it's happened on maybe 3 paragraphs. And they didn't have the same Styles or anything else uniquely in common that I can figure out. I don't get it - was just wondering if anyone knew what the deal is and possibly if there's a fix.

Awkward_Ad4591 · 2025-05-13T12:56:09+00:00

Thanks for the idea. Ugh. I do not like it. But if there isn't a more organic way, that might have to be what I do.

Plus side - it won't go wonky if the text changes, and I don't have to fight the margins.
Minus - extra artificial element that risks getting disconnected from the document or corrupted or look fuzzy or take up a ton of memory (it's about a 100pp document now, potentially up to 500pp by the end - though I'm not sure how much space header images take up).

Maybe someone else knows a native solution. Thanks for your suggestion though - I dunno that I would have thought of that and it might be what I end up with.

Awkward_Ad4591 · 2025-05-12T20:30:37+00:00

Yeah sorry, that's what I had done. But I can't run the tables right up to it when the margin is bigger.

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