Fixing bullet problems in Open Office
If you are a user of OpenOffice on the Mac, like I am, you have probably noticed that in converting documents back and forth between .odt and .doc formats messes with your bullets. Instead of little dots, you get clapper boards, which are cute but not useful for a professional documents.
Today, buried deep in a page discussing this bug, I found a very useful manual fix that has worked for me:
“I’ve had success using the Font Replacement Table, located in the OpenOffice.org ->Fonts. Enable “Apply replacement table”, select “Symbol” in the lefthand FONT drop down, select “OpenSymbol” in the righthand “Replace with” dropdown. Press the checkmark to the right to add the substitution to the table. Make sure you check the Always box.
Once this is set up, opening and saving in MSWord 97/XP format preserves the bullet characters in both directions.”
Hope this helps you.
Thanks! I find OpenOffice .doc support to be bearable at best. But this certainly helps a lot.
Thanks a lot! It works 🙂
Brilliant, thank you so much
Thanks for that – definitely helped me out. I’ve added a link to it on my computer tips page at http://www.squidoo.com/dannyscomputertips. I think it is the first Mac tip I’ve put on there so far!
Finally! A solution to this annoying problem! I’m excited and it did work. Thank you so much.
Thanks heaps! I wonder why they have not yet fixed this problem but thanks so much for the workaround!
This solution will not work
In version 3.3 on a mac go to
1. Format
2. Bullet and Numbering
3. Options
4. drop box for numbering select bullet
5. Character
6. Select Open Symbol
Currently it uses WingDing which messes up MS office in the doc format.
Hi Chris, could you please help me? When I use bullets, I generally don’t want them indented, and I prefer only a small space between the bullet and the text – how do I set this up as the default? I love Open Office but the bullets drive me mad!
Many thanks,
Carolyn
Brilliant. Worked like a charm. Thanks!!
When I set the small bullets for the ones points I want to mark/bullet, the larger ones will show up, not always but randomly enough, and space my lines out accordingly, so that my document looks bad. How do I tell it to just use the ‘small’ bullets I have selected and nothing else? Thanks so much for your help. I’m going crazy about this.
Thanks!!! Worked perfectly, and also fixed the problem of the bullets changing into clocks (!) when exporting to PDF.
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