When bullets become spades....

[Tiff Sunbacon]

Somehow, the 'spades' symbol has become the default bullet. Any
document I open with bullets (including PowerPoint files) now show the
spade dingbat where the standard bullet should be.

How can I change this back?

Many thanks

 

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

Hi Tiff:

I'm struggling a bit: You haven't specified which of the 16 versions of Word
and eight or nine operating systems we support that you are using.

However, my first thought would be to check that the "Symbol" font is still
installed and enabled. That's the default bullet in most versions of Word.
If the font isn't there. It will fall back to the next closest font, which
may have an entirely different character at that position.

I prefer to set my Bullet styles up to use the bullet from the normal text
font. That causes a single Unicode character that appears the same in
almost every font.

Cheers

Somehow, the 'spades' symbol has become the default bullet. Any
document I open with bullets (including PowerPoint files) now show the
spade dingbat where the standard bullet should be.

How can I change this back?

Many thanks

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John McGhie <[email protected]>
Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer
Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410

 

[Tiff Sunbacon]

Hi Tiff:

I'm struggling a bit: You haven't specified which of the 16 versions of Word
and eight or nine operating systems we support that you are using.

Sorry. I'm using Word 11.2 for Mac 2004 on a G4 PowerBook running
10.4.7

However, my first thought would be to check that the "Symbol" font is still
installed and enabled. That's the default bullet in most versions of Word.
If the font isn't there. It will fall back to the next closest font, which
may have an entirely different character at that position.

"Symbol" is missing. Although, confusingly, there is a font called
Symbol which has what look like greek characters. Word is not
defaulting to this because there is no spades character.

I prefer to set my Bullet styles up to use the bullet from the normal text
font. That causes a single Unicode character that appears the same in
almost every font.

Sounds sensible. How do I do that?

Thanks

 

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

If the Symbol font is missing, that's your problem. Re-install or enable
it.

To change the font and symbol used for bullets, see "Add picture bullets or
symbols to lists" in the Word Help.

Cheers

Sorry. I'm using Word 11.2 for Mac 2004 on a G4 PowerBook running
10.4.7

"Symbol" is missing. Although, confusingly, there is a font called
Symbol which has what look like greek characters. Word is not
defaulting to this because there is no spades character.


Sounds sensible. How do I do that?

Thanks

--

Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email
me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie <[email protected]>
Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer
Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410