{"id":8338,"date":"2016-06-08T00:01:04","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T07:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=8338"},"modified":"2016-06-04T13:05:44","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T20:05:44","slug":"autoformat-a-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=8338","title":{"rendered":"AutoFormat a List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Word&#8217;s AutoFormat As You Type feature has a special mode that lets you create custom lists. The feature is confusing because it&#8217;s not a list feature, not like bullets or numbering. Instead, Word picks up hints from a previous paragraph and automatically applies that special formatting to subsequent paragraphs.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe AutoFormat As You Type feature is called (long name): &#8220;Format beginning of list item like the one before it.&#8221; This feature is on by default. Here&#8217;s how to find its setting:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Click the File tab.<br \/>\n2. Choose Options.<br \/>\n3. Click the Proofing category on the left side of the Word Options dialog box.<br \/>\n4. Click the AutoCorrect Options button.<br \/>\n5. In the AutoCorrect dialog box, click the AutoFormat As You Type tab.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Format beginning of list item like the one before it&#8221; item is located near the bottom of the dialog box, as illustrated in Figure 1.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8371\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8371\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/0608-figure1.png\" alt=\"Figure 1. Finding that long-name command.\" width=\"400\" height=\"436\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/0608-figure1.png 400w, https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/0608-figure1-275x300.png 275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8371\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure 1. Finding that long-name command.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The effect is applied only to specific types of paragraphs. The best way to demonstrate the long-name command is to apply a hanging indent to a paragraph, then to bold the first word at the indent and follow it with a tab. Figure 2 saves me 1,000 words explaining further.<\/p>\n<p>FIGURE2<div id=\"attachment_8372\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8372\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/0608-figure2.png\" alt=\"Figure 2. How the long-name format works.\" width=\"450\" height=\"275\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/0608-figure2.png 450w, https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/0608-figure2-300x183.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8372\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure 2. How the long-name command works.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>The hanging indent format sets the first-line indent toward the page margin and indents the rest of the paragraph, as illustrated in Figure 2.<\/p>\n<p>I typed the first word of the first paragraph, <strong>Ford<\/strong>, in bold. Then I typed a period. The period is important as it&#8217;s a boundary that Word recognises for this type of list format. Then I typed a tab and the rest of the paragraph. Before pressing Enter, I formatted the first word (and period) bold.<\/p>\n<p>When I pressed Enter, the next paragraph started with the bold text attribute active. I typed <strong>Chevy<\/strong> and a period. At that point, Word deactivated the bold text attribute and the rest of the paragraph was typed in un-bold text. That&#8217;s how the long-name feature works.<\/p>\n<p>The same formatting trick took place on the third paragraph, as you can see in Figure 2. This type of list is what Word refers to with the &#8220;Format beginning of list item like the one before it&#8221; command. It&#8217;s a weird feature, but a handy tool &mdash; providing that you know how it works and when it&#8217;s automatically applied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Create a specially formatted list thanks to Word&#8217;s eager assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-8338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","tag-word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8338"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8376,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8338\/revisions\/8376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}