Why Do Bullets Keep Appearing?

Question

I NEED HELP ALL U GEEKS! I cut, copied and pasted an article I was going to use in the church bulletin, which I put together weekly. This article had bullets after every word and sentence. Now, every document I put together comes up with these rediculous bullets. I've done tons of things others recommended to me and nothing has made them stop appearing. Well, needless to say, I need to get them removed, like now! SOMEONE PLEASE HELP!

God Bless, ~think-pink~

Answer 1

Sounds like that's on your global template, but it could be one or both of two conditions:  

1. You might have the normal paragraph style set to bulleted, so everything you enter pops up with bullets, or,

2. You may have some bulleted text in the template.

We'll try to fix both.  Try this in versions of Word prior to Word Vista (2007).  Word Vista should have something similar:

1.Close all open copies of Word.

2.Open Word.

3.Click on the File->Save As menu item.

4.In the "File of Type" list box, scroll down to Document Templates and select it.  The directory should change and there should be a Normal.dot file in it.  DON’T SAVE THE FILE.  Click Cancel instead.

5.Click on the File->Open menu item.

6.Select Normal.dot.  Normal.dot should become your open document.

7.Now delete all the text in the document, including text in any headers and footers.  Pressing CTRL/A followed by the Delete key is the fastest way to do this.

8.Click on the Format->Styles and Formatting menu item.

9.In the bottom part of the sidebar that pops up, the style for your paragraph should have a bold box around it.

10.Hover the cursor over the style. A listbox arrow should appear. Click it.

11.Select Modify from the list box.

12.Click the Format button and select Paragraph.

13.There may be a Style Type list box set to List. If so, change it to Paragraph.

14.  If not, click the Format button and select Numbering.

15.  If any style other than None is selected, select None.

16.OK out of everything.

17.Save the file with File->Save.  You may get a warning message about the Global template having been changed.  This is OK.  Click Yes.

18.Close Word.

Word sometimes leaves the last directory used incorrectly set, so the next time you open or save (especially!) a file, be careful that Word's pointed at the right place.

Hope that helps.

Answer 2

If it's Microsoft Word you are talking about, those little dots that represent spaces are for newspaper editors who have to be exact in the number of spaces their writers have put in between words. They shouldn't show up when you print the document but to get rid of them, just enable your standard toolbar at the top. There will be a little icon that shows the paragraph marker (a backwards filled in P with two vertical lines) that you have to click on to turn off. Your problem should be fixed.

...And i'm not a geek. You should know how to use Word.

Answer 3

You don't say what program you are using.  If you are using Microsoft Word, highlight the text that you want to remove the bullets from.  At the top of the screen choose the Bullet icon and then choose None.

For powerPoint, follow this link

http://www.ellenfinkelstein.com/powerpoi...

God Bless.