Trying to write a science fiction story to turn into a game and start by throwing out short blurbs into a timeline to give context to the story.
Google docs cant do a bulletin list right.
Microsoft word cant do a bulletin list right.
Libreoffice is terrible to use in general.
Kiwifarms can't do a bulletin list right.
I am forced to use fucking notepad of all things because it doesn't try to autoformat everything and it makes me MATI.
All I want is "highlight text"
"press bullet list button"
*BOOM*
• That's a bulletin item just like it used to work in older versions of Office.
• None of this "Highlight text"
"press bullet list button"
*BOOM*
Bulletins the last several paragraphs/bulletin items together and the number is at the top of the fucking page
This includes the title of the document for some reason. Autism.
I have never had this issue in Word. Are you using soft returns (shift-enter) between lines/paragraphs, rather than hard returns (enter), for some reason?
Another option is to format a line as a bulleted list before typing the text you want bulleted. Each time you hit return you'll have a new bullet (bc it sets up as a list), but if you backspace or return you'll be out of the bulleted list. (But if my next point is accurate, that won't help: )
I'm also wondering if whatever style you're using for the text (I'm assuming you're just putting everything in Normal and manually formatting?) you have a box checked in the properties for that style that applies any changes to all instances of that style.
I recommend getting good at using Styles in Word. Your title should have different properties than basic paragraph text or headings/subheadings. Every new doc in Word comes with a set of built-in styles, which you can tweak to your liking, or even create a template for other docs to use instead of the default. Using styles for headings also allows you to collapse and expand sections, and to make changes across every instance of that type/level of text in one update to the style.
But even if using basic default paragraph or Normal text, clicking the bullet button when you have highlighted text shouldn't change other text, unless, as noted above, you're not hitting enter after each separate paragraph/ heading/ etc., or youre using all the same type of text (style) and have a box checked to update the style everywhere each time you format some text.