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Default Bullet Formatting Problem

Ctrl+Q *does* reapply the style. But I wonder if you and Cindy are using the
word "style" in the same way. If you have single-spaced and double-spaced
bullet styles, are these distinct paragraph styles with the bullet defined
as part of the style (Format | Style | Modify: Format: Numbering)?

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"Mkate" wrote in message
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Hello Cindy,

I highlighted the bulleted lines and did CTRL + Q. I then tried to

reapply
the style but it did not put the bullet symbol back. What is so hard to
understand is that I have this bullet symbol style in a single spaced and
double spaced bullet style. The double spaced style retains the bullet

while
the single spaced style loss it and does not allow me to reapply the style
and get the bullet symbol back.
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Mkate


"Cindy M." wrote:

Hi ?B?TWthdGU=?=,

Are the bullets in both sets of documents defined with a style? And is

the same
style name used in both documents? If not, you may be running into a

problem
with direct formatting. If you select a copy/pasted paragraph where the

bullets
have been lost, press Ctrl+Q (to remove direct paragraph formatting),

then
re-apply the style do you see anything happen?

I use a template for formatting proposal documents and am having a

problem
with the bullets. Every so often when I copy text into my master

document, I
lose the bullet formatting. I always copy information in as

unformatted text
and use the template formatting styles for my document. When I try to

format
the bullets, I am not able to re-apply the bullet style if I have lost

them.
Usually I can reattch my template select update styles and that will

usually
work.

Unfortunatey, all of our boilerplate content was recently moved to a

data
center that does not allow storage of DOC format documents so we had

to
convert all our files to XML. Now when users download the BP files,

there
seem to be more occurrences of the "missing bullets".

I have read the various threads on setting up bullets and do not

believe
that the bullets in this template were set up with List Bullet

initially. Is
there a way to fix these bullets to make them more stable so users are

not
losing them.


Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
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