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Q165881: WD97: Bullets Change to Other Characters When Changed to Text

Article: Q165881
Product(s): Word 97 for Windows
Version(s): WINDOWS:97
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): kbualink97 kbusage word97 kbnumbering
Last Modified: 14-NOV-2000

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Word 97 for Windows 
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SYMPTOMS
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If you save a Word document containing bullets in Text With Layout format, when
you open the Text With Layout document, the bullets will have changed to other
characters.

CAUSE
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The preset bullet characters are being incorrectly mapped to different extended
ANSI characters.

WORKAROUND
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Save the document as Text Only rather than as Text With Layout.

STATUS
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Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at
the beginning of this article. We are researching this problem and will post new
information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

MORE INFORMATION
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If you save the document as Text Only, the bullet characters get mapped to
either small dots or asterisks. This is the correct behavior. If you save the
document as Text With Layout, the bullet characters get mapped to different,
incorrect ANSI extended characters.

REFERENCES
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For more information on bullets and numbering and how they are converted, please
see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

  Q164618 WD97: Conversion of Bullets and Numbering

For more information about text converters, click Contents And Index on the Help
menu, click the Index tab in Help Topics: Microsoft Word, type the following
text

  converting documents, file

and then double-click the selected text, and then go to the "File format
converters supplied with Microsoft Word" topic. If you are unable to find the
information you need, ask the Office Assistant.

Additional query words:

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Keywords          : kbualink97 kbusage word97 kbnumbering 
Technology        : kbWordSearch kbWord97 kbWord97Search kbZNotKeyword2
Version           : WINDOWS:97
Issue type        : kbbug

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