Microsoft KB Archive/164011

= WD97: Default Bullet Format Lost After Reopening HTML File =

Article ID: 164011

Article Last Modified on 1/19/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q164011



SYMPTOMS
If you use the Web Page Wizard to generate an HTML document that contains bullets, clicking the Bullet button on the Standard toolbar may not give you a bullet of the same style if you have closed and reopened the HTML document.



CAUSE
The bullets generated by the Web Page Wizard are .gif pictures. They are not created with the standard internal bulleting mechanism that Word 97 uses in non-HTML documents.

Closing and reopening the HTML document runs the HTML tags through the HTML converter and the current status of the default bullet is lost.



WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, use either of the following methods.

Method 1
Re-insert the bullet you want by clicking the Format menu and clicking Bullets and Numbering. You may need to click the More button to choose other .gif images to be used as bullet images.

Method 2
Click one of the bullets in your document and then use the Copy and Paste commands to use the bullet with a new line of text.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

This problem has been corrected in Word 2000.

