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Word 07 Bullet Problems

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by nriddle

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When I save a MSWord 2007 file as a MSWord 2003 file, the bullet points lose the correct formatting. Example:
- This is the normal formatting for 2007 where the - is the bullet.

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This is the formatting when I save the file as 2003 document and open it in 2007

The bullet format moves the 1st word to the far right of the page and bumps the rest of the sentence to the next line. I have tried everything to remove the gap in between the bullet and the 1st word. (Promote/Demote, Indent, Right Align, etc)

If I try to reformat the document by removing the bullets and inserting a symbol and a space between the symbol and 1st word, it auto-formats the symbol into a bullet and increases the space in between the bullet and 1st word by the entire width of the page.

ANY SUGGESTIONS ON HOW TO FIX THIS???

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by thumbsup2

You can determine how much space is between the bullets and words by controlling the amount of indent after them. In 2003, it's found in Format -> Bullets and Numbers -> Customize. Not sure exactly where they hid it in 2007 though. It's somewhere in "the ribbon".

by nriddle

After searching and posting a few places, MS Office Help was the biggest help. To fix the issue, I had to right click in the area between the bullet and the 1st word and select "Adjust List Indent..." To make the big space between the word and bullet go away, I had to change the drop down for ?Follow number with?? from "Tab Character" to "Space" Hopefully this helps anyone who has to deal with the backwards incompatiblilty between 07 and 03. Leave it to Mircosoft to develope software that isn't compatible with its older versions.

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