Office & productivity software: Bullet List in Word using incorrect symbol
Bullet List in Word using incorrect symbol
by SteveFerson - 1/13/04 9:54 AMWhen I create a bulleted list using the default filled circle style, instead of the circles I get a film clapper board :-\. All the other bullets work fine, eg the square bullets but for some reason this one doesn't work.
When I send the file to another computer it displays properly but for some reason not on mine, even after I reinstalled office xp.
Re:Bullet List in Word using incorrect symbol
by R. Proffitt
- 1/13/04 10:13 AM
In reply to: Bullet List in Word using incorrect symbol by SteveFerson
I vaguely remember the answer to this one. Seems that someone at Microsoft was changing core fonts. Mind you I'm only drawing from memory, but it was some font that some group deemed Politically Incorrect about some sequence of fonts. You can change the Font used in Bullets to work around it.
Bob
Re:Bullet List in Word using incorrect symbol
by Kees Bakker - 1/13/04 3:34 PM
In reply to: Bullet List in Word using incorrect symbol by SteveFerson
If it is a font problem, as Bob suggests (which sounds very likely) first see what character from what font it is (on a computer where it is correctly shown). I have 2: one is 14 point, the other seems to be of an undefined size, and it's the bullit (alt-0-1-8-3, check with start/run/charmap) from the Symbol font.
Then copy that Symbol font from c:windows\fonts to a diskette or mail it to yourself.
Then go to your own PC, and check the definition of the bullit. This must be equal (same character from same font). Otherwise make it equal, which might help already.
If it doesn't help remove your Symbol font with Control Panel from your font list (make a copy of it first!), then install the replacement font from the diskette or mail, reset the bullit definition to the correct character from this new font and try again. Since you can easily go back to your own carefully backed up copy this is harmless. And it might help. The same fonts, and the same character from it as definition of the bullit should give the same results on both computers, I assume.
Kees
Re:Re:Bullet List in Word using incorrect symbol
by SteveFerson - 1/13/04 8:06 PM In reply to: Re:Bullet List in Word using incorrect symbol by Kees Bakker
I want to thank you both for your answers. It was indeed a font problem, I had already checked on my XP Pro partition and the symbol was alt0183 from the symbol font. However this wasn't showing up in the bullet formatting options.
After reinstalling MS Office AND manually deleting Office registry entries in HKLM and HKLU I realised that my symbol font had been corrupted (?) on installation of another program. Esentially the symbol.ttf was replaced with a shortcut to a font in another directory :-\ MS Office obviously couldn't follow it and so copying the font across from the XP partition fixed the problem.
(NT) Good to read you solved the problem. Thanks for the feedback.
by Kees Bakker - 1/14/04 4:03 AM
In reply to: Re:Re:Bullet List in Word using incorrect symbol by SteveFerson
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