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Auto Bullets when I try to create a paragraph in Word.
Hello. A collaborator sent a word document that I uploaded to Dropbox. I duplicated the document and began a new (word) one so I could manipulate it to fit the needs of the assignment. As I began to edit it (after opening it in Word for Web), I pressed "enter" to create a new line so I could insert a table at the top and when I pressed "enter" it would automatically start a bulleted line! I would press have to click the bulleted list button at the top after every space of paragraph I created. For some reason, it keeps wanting to start a bulleted list. And no, I do not have a bulleted list anywhere else in this document, nor did I ever click the bullet button.
Do I have some "auto bulleted list" setting turned on that I can turn off???
Ps. I have a mac laptop, so it is technically every time I press "return" in Word for Web.
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It would have to be a video rather than a screenshot, otherwise its just how a bullet sits on a page as usual. The issue is that fact that it automatically thinks a new paragraph shall start with a bullet.
I can reach out to you directly with a screen recording but I don't prefer to share my screen publicly in case the information may be sensitive.It seems to happen with both the source document and my copy.
When I open the document in Word (not word for WEB) then it doesn't happen.If I open other documents with Word for Web, it doesn't happen.
- Walter
Dropbox Community Moderator
Thanks for clarifying that for us K10MD
You haven't mentioned if this persists after clearing your browser's cache or when using another browser - could you give it a go and let us know if this persists?
If it does, could you try selecting the blank space where you want to type in the doc and toggle off/on the bullet list and try again?
I cleared the browser cache and it kept happening but it seemed to only happen with that document. I'm wondering if something somehow carried over from the original.
