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Stopping autoformat buttets and numbering in Word 2000.

Feb 22, 2008 2:48PM PST

Running an old IBM Aptiva 2165J with W98J first edition.
Working on an MS Word document stripped from a PDF. It is a Service Manual I am translating from Japanese to English. I have a line of Japanese starting with 1) etc. I want to type a line under it starting with 1) for English, but whe I hit Enter at the end of the line I get 2) on the next line. I set bullets and numbers to "none" while highlighting the entire doc. I also went to TOOLS Autocorrect and unclicked the two lines for autoformat bulletts and numbers as you type (I think I got the right ones. I don't read Japanese all that well.

Why are difficult things so easy in MS Word and simple things so difficult?

TokioOkie

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That is very easy !
Feb 22, 2008 5:26PM PST

Also uncheck “Format the beginning of list like the one before it.” at Auto Correct>Autoformat as you type>Automatically as you type.

If you want a new line without the auto number bullet, type in Shift + Enter instead of just Enter. Or are you trying to type thus:

1) Japanese sentence.
1) English translation.
2) Another Japanese sentence.
2) The English equivalent.
3)
3)
etc. ?

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Thank you very much!
Feb 22, 2008 5:43PM PST

Shift Enter -- That IS easy!

I found another way, but it involves using Word Pad instead of MS Word. I would rather stay in Word.

Thanks again Papa!

Tokio Okie

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Stopping Autoformatting
Feb 24, 2008 9:03AM PST

Is there a way I could create a word template with autoformatting disableded?

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Errr...
Feb 24, 2008 6:14PM PST

Yes, and No.
Yes, but it is not permanent. You can always enable it- but it would be disabled by default. So, no- you can't really create it.