Bullets in Tables Disappear when copy and paste

[rbyteme]

I'm afriad you have hit on one of Word's little problems.
This also happens with automatic numbering. It has
something to do with the order of the various list
possibilities as they appear in the Format-Bullets &
Numbering dialog, as you have noted seeing the "pictures"
change. possibly there is some rhyme or reason for the
change, but after 10+ years of dealing with this i have
yet to figure one out! I do know that whenever you switch
from one list to another the ordering of the pictures
tends to change; it even changes between the time one
access it through Format-Style then immediately follow
with Format-Bullet & Numbering. annoying, isn't it?!

One solution that does not always work is to make
absolutely sure that both documents in question are
building their identical list items on the exact same
picture in the sequence, but even this is no guarantee.
the best solution is to record a maco as you format the
bulleted list to exactly as it should be, then you can
rerun it whenever the formatting drops out, which at least
saves you having to do all the steps over again.

"an imperfect solution for an imperfect world."

--robin a.k.a. rbyteme

>-----Original Message-----
>For one particular Bullet style we've created, but not
two
>others, when we copy and paste from one document to
>another based on the same template, the bullets drop
>out. The style menu still says 'Table Bullet One'
>but if I go into Format|Bullets & Numbering, the thumnail
>pictures of available bullets have changed. Done note
>happen all the time, no pattern seen yet.
>
>Thanks.
>
>David
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>

[Steve Hudson]

G'day David,

in the interests of describing what is happening, you can use this
macro to check out what is really linked to what. Add on top of that
that any paras with manual formatting will keep their formatting when
they come over and restarting a list is manual formatting.

Use a scratch copy of your doc for this as it performs unwanted edits.

Public Sub ShowUsedListTemplates()
'her...@tdfa.com
Dim k As Long
On Error Resume Next
With ActiveDocument
For k = 1 To .ListTemplates.Count
With .ListTemplates(k)
If .Name = "" Then .Name = Format(k)
End With
Next

For k = 1 To .ListParagraphs.Count
With .ListParagraphs(k).Range
.InsertBefore "[" & .ListFormat.ListTemplate.Name &
"]"
End With
Next
End With
End Sub

A simple 'inline fix' is to use format painter to copy the formatting
from a good list.

"David Iacoponi" <David.I...@lazard.com> was spinning a yarn that
went like this:

>For one particular Bullet style we've created, but not two
>others, when we copy and paste from one document to
>another based on the same template, the bullets drop
>out. The style menu still says 'Table Bullet One'
>but if I go into Format|Bullets & Numbering, the thumnail
>pictures of available bullets have changed. Done note
>happen all the time, no pattern seen yet.
>
>Thanks.
>
>David

Steve Hudson, Word Heretic
HDK List MVP
Word tools: her...@tdfa.com
Please post replies/further questions to the newsgroup so that all may benefit.
If I don't provide enough information, please feel free to ask for more :-)

[David Iacoponi]

MSFT's (paid) answer is to check the Templates|Addins box
allow styles to be updated automatically. We had
consciously chosen not to do this because we have
had experience where the template styles got messed up.

If this helps anyone else, great, and if you have
contra-indications to this, pls let me know (via email if
you would be so kind)

>-----Original Message-----
>For one particular Bullet style we've created, but not
two
>others, when we copy and paste from one document to
>another based on the same template, the bullets drop
>out. The style menu still says 'Table Bullet One'
>but if I go into Format|Bullets & Numbering, the thumnail
>pictures of available bullets have changed. Done note
>happen all the time, no pattern seen yet.
>
>Thanks.
>
>David

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