Created attachment 191600 [details] MS Word AutoCorrect options, Autoformat As You Type pane; see third-from-last checkbox In MS Word, one of the Auto-format "as-you-type" capabilities is: "Format beginning of list item like the one before it". To be honest, I'm not too thrilled about this feature - since one has to change format after the beginning-part to the non-beginning-part format - but apparently some users like it. Perhaps we should also offer it, for feature parity?
Note that the MS Word feature works both for DF and for character styles.
Currently, applying formatting to a bullet changes the formatting of the whole list's bullets. Can you describe exactly what MS Word's "Format beginning of list item like the one before it" does? I don't think its label is completely self-explanatory. Does it change the beginning of the paragraph? For example: "first five characters of each item is bold"? I guess this is the corresponding setting: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/api/Word.Options.AutoFormatAsYouTypeFormatListItemBeginning
(In reply to Stéphane Guillou (stragu) from comment #2) > Currently, applying formatting to a bullet changes the formatting of the > whole list's bullets. > > Can you describe exactly what MS Word's "Format beginning of list item like > the one before it" does? I don't think its label is completely > self-explanatory. > Does it change the beginning of the paragraph? For example: "first five > characters of each item is bold"? It doesn't format the bullet (or at least, that's not what I've tried doing with it); it formats the text, i.e. applies Character DF or a named Character Style for the text you start typing after pressing Enter at the end of a list item paragraph.
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The AutoCorrect function "Bulleted and numbered lists. Bullet symbol: *" (what an awkward label) adds a list style to "* <text>" as DF (the option is off by default). The following paragraph inherits the list style, and the MSO option apparently allows to prevent this. I see non use in such an option as it makes handling with lists much more difficult compared to the simple click on the list toolbar button. => WF
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #5) I believe you're misunderstanding, this is not about the list style; not about the formatting of the bullet symbol. It's about the character style at the beginning of the paragraph of text.
There is no character formatting happening, even MSO talks about "list item before" (list item = paragraph). And the PS has a LS attached, I think either empty or with some data rather than none and some. In any case it is not a CS (neither we apply any here).
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #7) > There is no character formatting happening, Yes, there is. (An MSO user complained about this to me and I reproduced it.) If you're not seeing it, I suppose I could create a screencast...
(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #8) > I suppose I could create a screencast... => NEEDINFO
Feel free to reopen with the screencast.