WD98: Bullets Change to Other Characters When File Saved as Text

 Last reviewed: February 19, 1998
Article ID: Q181260
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Word 98 Macintosh Edition

SYMPTOMS

If you save a Word document that contains bullets in Text With Layout format, close and then open the Text With Layout document, the bullets will have changed to different characters.

CAUSE

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

WORKAROUND

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

STATUS

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

When 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

For more information about converting bullets and numbering formatting, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 

  ARTICLE ID: Q181261
  TITLE     : WD98: Conversion of Bullets and Numbering
For more information about text conversions, click Contents And Index on the Help menu (or on the Balloon Help menu if you are using a version of the Macintosh operating system earlier than 8.0), click the Index button in Word Help, type the following text 

   converting files, converters
and then click Show Topics. Select the "File format converters supplied with Microsoft Word" topic, and click Go To. If you are unable to find the information you need, ask the Office Assistant.

Additional query words:
Keywords : kbconversion kbbuglist
Version : MACINTOSH:98
Platform : MACINTOSH
Hardware : MAC
Issue type : kbbug
Solution Type : kbfix

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Last reviewed: February 19, 1998
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