How to prevent bullet list from ending automatically?

[Proxyhedron]

I am encountering an issue where typing a letter and punctuation (like “J:”) on a bulleted list and hitting Space causes the line to automatically remove itself from the bulleted list. I use bulleted lists as a quick method for script-writing, as it’s an easy way to add notes beneath specific dialogue lines or scene descriptions. Typing a character’s initial instead of their entire name is also done for convenience, so obviously this is a huge problem for me, as every time I try to write a line of dialogue I have to first hit ctrl+z just to continue using the bulleted list.

I’m not sure what setting this is controlled by. All of my autocorrect settings are OFF, and everything I look up talks about ‘automatic numbering’ or ‘automatic bullets’ as a way of starting lists. I am trying to stop this shortcut for ending lists.

(Edit: Additional details) it is possible that instead of being a setting to end the list, it is a setting inserting a new line. I am not sure though because I don’t know how to go about testing this.

[mikekaganski]

@Proxyhedron

I have to first hit ctrl+z

Note that at this point, you could also use menu Edit, and see which text “Foo” is shown at Undo: Foo, so that you see which specific action you are undoing.

[Proxyhedron]

It says the specific action to undo is “Delete numbering.” This doesn’t make sense to me because it’s a bulleted list, but hopefully that is helpful for you to understand what’s happening.

[Proxyhedron]

Nevermind! Thank you for your help, but I realized what the issue was. Hitting Shift+Space apparently is a shortcut for ending the bulleted list, and because I am typing two characters with the shift key, I’m accidentally hitting it with space as well.

[ajlittoz]

Shift+Space is surely not a shortcut to end bullet list. It is a key combination specific to Windows (handled by the OS keyboard driver) generating a variant of space, likely a no-break space.

You encounter the type of problem you describe because your document is not fully styled and you have a mix of low styles with a lot of direct formatting.