Dissapearing bullets

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Gem_man

I would be most grateful for assistance in a baffling problem.

I have a multipage document that among other things contains two areas that
are bulleted.

When I copy the styles from a style template that I have made, one set of
bulleted text shows without its bullets.

I thought there was a problem with the styles that I was copying over, but
if I highlight the bulleted text, and go to formats and then style the the
bullets magically appear again. Even if I do nothing to the style screen.

The styles name for this text that I am copying over matches the style name
of the problem text and does show as bulleted on the styles dialog screen.

I have, to my knowledge, removed any manual formatting from the problem area
prior to copying over the styles

I have spent hours on this and cannot understand what I am doing wrong.

Any suggestions? Thank you
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

Instead of going to Format | Style, try just selecting the paragraphs and
pressing Ctrl+Q to reset the paragraphs to the default style formatting.
It's possible that the bullets were added as direct formatting in the source
document.
 
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Gem_man

Thanks for the reply Suzanne

The problem is that the copying of the styles is being done programatically
and doing the Ctrl Q thing is not really an option as I want this to appear
perfect each time the style is copied across.

There are several issues that I am getting to the bottom of but the thing I
cant get my head around is the following:-

The style of the bullet in the orginal document (no manual formatting is
present) remains unaltered after the new style has been applied which has a
different bullet style attached to that style.

In other words the original bullet style overides whatever is applied to it
latterly.

I have followed an excellent article by Shauna Kelly to the letter but still
have no joy.

How can the original format persist after a new style has been applied?

Many thanks
 
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Gem_man

PS

The orginal document has the bullet level linked to the correct style, as
does the teplate on which it is based and so does the the Style that gets
copied over.

But after the style has been copied, the level is linked to "No Style"

Could this be a clue? and if so what do you think is causing it?

Thanks
 
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Gem_man

By the way, when I do the CTRL Q thing on the bullets after the style has
been copied across, they correct themslves t what they should be. This is
driving me nuts. Mr Gates will not be getting an xmas card this year.
 
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Margaret Aldis

I can confirm this is a problem - Word often seems reapply numbering as
direct formatting on pasting into a document, sometimes getting the format
wrong in the process. If you have Word 2003 and can protect for styles that
will prevent it happening, as then Word does seem to respect the target
style absolutely. (See
http://groups-beta.google.com/group...hread/e6144a64e1f15b4c/1ec53694376f364d?tvc=1
)

Alternatively you can use VBA to 'do the Ctrl-Q thing' - there is a Reset
method on the Paragraph object which will do the trick, or you can reapply
the style.

You might want to look at
http://groups-beta.google.com/group...hread/f097fd5373ec9cbf/71e77a634fc34015?tvc=1

which is another description of the problem, though I don't know that Julie
ever got a definitive workaround.

I'm cross posting this to the numbering group, since I think your finding on
the link is a good clue that might link in with the previous discussion.
 
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