Importing bullet list from MS Word seems to mess up the bullet format spacing

[ajwwong]

Hi there,

I'm trying to import a document that has bullet lists from MS Word, but it seems to mess up the bullet format spacing.  I can't seem to figure out a fix for this other than manually doing it, bullet by bullet.  

Is there an easier way? Here is a Video that shows the behavior that I'm talking about. Thank you everybody in advance for your thoughtful help.

https://www.loom.com/share/fc364c785e6b487597e1dbcb2e4efc22

[Oufti]

Hello @ajwwong!

You said you prefer not to add tabs after the bullet (something like that, at the end of your presentation). Is it because it is tedious or because you don't like how it looks? 

Whatever, this could help you : 

1. In the Text menu, activate "Show special characters" and in View menu, "Show text ruler"
2. Check how your bullets are formatted. 
   It is probably followed by a tab, like circled here:
   
3. Then you could move to the left the triangle shown by the yellow arrow (first line indent, where the bullet is placed), or click on the ruler to set a tab stop from which the text after the bullet will begin. 
   Like this:
   
   
   Or like that:
   
    
4. (If you prefer, you can do the same within the Paragraph panel > Spacing: Left indent, First line indent, and Tabulations settings.)
5. Once you're satisfied with the result, you could update the text style or create a new one for your other bulleted paragraphs. 
   (Depending on your document, it is possible that only placing a tab stop and updating general style will satisfy you. Perhaps, you'll have to define and apply a new style for bulleted paragraphs…)
6. Finally, if there are many lists, you could use Find and replace to apply the new style to each paragraph that begins with a bullet. 

 

[Catshill]

I’d create a style for each bullet level in Publisher and apply it to the imported document. I don’t think Affinity is going to be able to replicate the bullets from MS Word.

[walt.farrell]

13 hours ago, ajwwong said:

Is there an easier way?

Can you provide a sample .docx document you're having trouble with?

[ajwwong]

@Oufti  Thanks for your suggestions. I will give that a shot. Hopefully, I can just adjust the style just as @Catshill mentioned and that everything will work out okay.

@walt.farrell Here's the Word Doc -- feel free to try and place it in an Affinity doc.  For me, when I upload it into Affinity 1.0 -- using "Place" -- first of all the fonts are a bit screwy and I have to adjust things -- but I'm used to that.  But then the other thing is the bullet lists are all mussed up which I'm still trying to figure out how to fix.  Thanks so much.    

Affinity Sample.docx

[stokerg]

Hi @ajwwong,

Thanks for the sample file.

For me in V1, some of the bullets are being imported without the space.  But in V2, they seem to be imported correctly.

There is a section of the text where the bullets aren't imported at all, mainly the ones under the heading 'EXERCISE:  NOTICING YOUR TRAUMA RESPONSES' and this happens in both V1 and V2.  I'll get this logged with the Developers but as V1 isn't being updated any more, it's likely the fix will only go into V2 of Affinity.

[Affinity Info Bot]

The issue "Users Docx file, Bullet points not importing" (REF: AF-1269) has been fixed by the developers in internal build "2.4.0.2175".
This fix should soon be available as a customer beta and is planned for inclusion in the next customer release.
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