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PUB: Bullets Change Size After Word Story Editing

Article ID: 139686

Article Last Modified on 8/17/2005

Microsoft Publisher 3.0 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q139686

SYMPTOMS

If you use the "Edit Story in Microsoft Word" command on a Publisher story that contains bulleted lists, the size of the bullet characters may change when you update the story.

CAUSE

Both Publisher and Word use bullets as part of the format of a paragraph. You can't select size of the bullet character. Publisher uses the size of the first character in the paragraph to calculate how large to make the bullet. Word uses the size of the nonprinting carriage return character at the end of the paragraph. When you edit a Publisher story in Microsoft Word, Word recalculates the size of the bullet character and may change it.

RESOLUTION

Once you have finished editing your story in Word, you can do the following to correct the problem:

Select the bulleted text.
Click the Bulleted or Numbered List button on Publisher's toolbar.
Select the style of bullet you are currently using.

This resets the bullet size.

STATUS

This is a side-effect of using Microsoft Word to edit text created in Microsoft Publisher. It is not based on a problem in either Microsoft Word or Microsoft Publisher.

Additional query words: 3.00 pub3 w_mspub pub95 pub97

Keywords: kbinterop kbprb KB139686