[X4U] Word 2008/2004 Bullet Issue

[Ed Gould]

On Mar 11, 2008, at 10:58 AM, Richard Gilmore wrote:

> My versions of Word 2008/04 won't show bullets on the Mac at all  
> even though
> it shows a bullet and says "bullet" it comes up as a square box  
> even if it's
> made on a Mac to start with and hasn't gone anywhere near a PC. I  
> don't
> think it's a font issue especially with the people that I deal with  
> on the
> PC (Win) end of things who have different fonts on their home
> computers/laptops where their docs originated from yet their  
> bullets on
> Win/PC never fail to work properly on our machines (which they need  
> to print
> from). And the Mac bullets don't work at all.
>
> You can customize the bullets on Mac Word 2008 with Option-8 but  
> they don't
> line up directly across from the list they are supposed to be  
> "bulleting"
> the way "real" bullets do. This has proven to be an unacceptable  
> workaround
> to our clients who use bullets mainly for resumes and are  
> incredibly fussy
> and picky on how they want their resumes to look. From a marketing
> standpoint this makes our Macs look poorly to our clients many of  
> who have
> little exposure to Apple.
>
>
> SNIP--------------


I have had similar issues with Word Perfect and indeed the bullets  
that WP supplies (or what WP uses) are really small. In WP I believe  
you have to create you own bullet in the size you want. I don't know  
zip about Word.

I will have to admit it is *NOT* easy to figure out that it needs to  
be done. If you find someone that is a wizard in whatever word  
processing program  don't bug them for every problem but keep them  
for the hard to diagnose problems like this. Buy them a lunch  or  
dinner once or twice a year and only use them 2-3 times a year.

Ed