My bullets are shot

[PhilD]

I've produced a document in Word 2004 with numerous bulleted points,
and something funny is happening.

The bullets are (or should be) the default coloured in black circles
that come up when clicking the bullet button. Sometimes when I open
the document (all two pages of it) the bullets are replaced by hollow
rectangles. By "un-bulleting" and then undoing the change, the bullets
return to normal. Actually, I only need to change one bullet in this
way to get all of them to display properly.

On transferring the document to Windoze (Word 2000), the same issue
occurs.

Any thoughts, anyone?

Thanks,

PhilD

 

[little_creature]

Did you used the predefined styles or made your own one? Do you have checked
the Automaticaly update at FORMAt>style>modify?

 

[PhilD]

Did you used the predefined styles or made your own one? Do you have checked
the Automaticaly update at FORMAt>style>modify?

Own style, no automatic update (that feature is such a pest I wish it
could be completely removed from all tool bars!)

PhilD

 

[little_creature]

Tools > Templates and Add-Ins>Automatically Update Document Styles unchecked
as well?

 

[PhilD]

Tools > Templates and Add-Ins>Automatically Update Document Styles unchecked
as well?

Yes (in the Windows version definitely, in the Mac version most likely
but I cannot actually check at this moment[1]).

PhilD

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Hi Phil:

The "Bullets" button simply applies the bullet "list template" that was most
recently used in the document.

If that list template has gotten itself set to use a font that is
unavailable, you will get the "Missing Character" hollow boxes.

The key is to use Format>Style>Modify>Numbering>Customise... To put your
style right. Once you do, it should stay that way.

The list template is similar to a style, but it sets the formatting for list
items (bullets and numbering). Simplistically, the list templates are what
appear in the dialog when you go to ...Customise...

It is possible to have a list template associated with a style, or to have
one applied directly to a list of paragraphs. If you have a style
containing a list template applied to the paragraphs, then you make a change
to one of the paragraphs to which the style is applied, you can substitute a
different list template, not to the style, but just to the current "list" of
paragraphs.

This leads to this odd condition where you apply the style and one thing
happens, fix a paragraph and all the paragraphs in that list change, apply
the style and they all change again.

Cheers

I've produced a document in Word 2004 with numerous bulleted points,
and something funny is happening.

The bullets are (or should be) the default coloured in black circles
that come up when clicking the bullet button. Sometimes when I open
the document (all two pages of it) the bullets are replaced by hollow
rectangles. By "un-bulleting" and then undoing the change, the bullets
return to normal. Actually, I only need to change one bullet in this
way to get all of them to display properly.

On transferring the document to Windoze (Word 2000), the same issue
occurs.

Any thoughts, anyone?

Thanks,

PhilD

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