Bullets don't show up onscreen - but they do print

[Amanda]

Hello, I'm encountering this problem with one Word
document that I occasionally work on for a client (so a
few different people work on this document, all of whom
use Windows): Bullets that I originally formatted no
longer show up for me, in either page layout or print
preview modes. Text indentation for bulleted paragraphs
are correct, and I can see the tab arrow, but not the
bullet character. The bullets do print out however. When I
return the document to my client, they are able to see all
the bullet characters, which is fortunate as otherwise I'd
have to reapply bullet formatting every time I work on the
document (it's over 100pp) - but it is tricky editing the
document without being able to see the bullets. Any
suggestions? I searched the Knowledge Base but did not
find anything related to this issue. Might I just need a
patch?
Thank you,
Amanda

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Amanda,

I'd try updating your graphics card driver, for starters.

You might also try renaming your Normal.dot template to see
if that has any effect.

I'm encountering this problem with one Word
document that I occasionally work on for a client (so a
few different people work on this document, all of whom
use Windows): Bullets that I originally formatted no
longer show up for me, in either page layout or print
preview modes. Text indentation for bulleted paragraphs
are correct, and I can see the tab arrow, but not the
bullet character. The bullets do print out however. When I
return the document to my client, they are able to see all
the bullet characters, which is fortunate as otherwise I'd
have to reapply bullet formatting every time I work on the
document (it's over 100pp) - but it is tricky editing the
document without being able to see the bullets. Any
suggestions? I searched the Knowledge Base but did not
find anything related to this issue. Might I just need a
patch?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep
30 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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