[Solved] Bullets keep switching to vertical lines

[DavidMWright]

I'm creating and editing a document using Neo Office. It contains many bullet points using the standind round blobs.
Some of the blobs keep defaulting to a vertical line when re-opening the document, and it's a pain to have to keep correcting them.
Why is this happening and ehat can I do to stop it happening?
Thanks

[Hagar Delest]

Very likely a problem with the font used. It may be replaced by a known one at first when you create the text but at reopening, Neo may be lost.
Can you check that the font used for the bullet is installed?
Can you upload a sample file (see: How to attach a document here)?

[DavidMWright]

When the bullets are correctly displayed the font is shown as Symbol;Arial Unicode. When the vertical lines are showing the font displayed is Wingdings. The defaulting to Wingdings seems to occure randomly, maybe only on a few instances in the document.

[Hagar Delest]

Make sure that the OpenSymbol font is installed (or at least seen by AOO), it may help.
Are the Symbol or Wingdings fonts available in other applications?
If you use the toolbar button, better avoid it and use list styles where you can define the exact font to be used.

[DavidMWright]

I've installed OpenSymbol, but it hasn't solved the problem. I find if I get it to display the bullets correctly, I can save and re-open the document once, and all is well. However if I save and re-open a second time, the bullets have reverted to vertical lines again.
I'm not clear what you mean by selecting the font using list styles?

[Zizi64]

I'm creating and editing a document using Neo Office.

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Open Office 3.3.0 on Windows 7

If you really use Windows, then try the LibreOffice.
(I do not know: Neo Office is launched for Mac??? Can you install LO on the Mac?)

[DavidMWright]

I'm using NeoOffice on a MacBook Pro. As it happens the document in question was originally created on a PC using OpenOffice. I wonder if this might be relevant?

[Hagar Delest]

Very likely.
As said, try to change the bullets by using a list style where you select the font and character you need.

Note: you should update your signature if you don't use Windows.

[DavidMWright]

I need to study how to use List Styles.
Thanks for your help!

[Hagar Delest]

See the wiki (no wiki for 4.x): https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Docume ... eted_lists
And: [Solved] Bullet Point Characters Incorrect (usually the most relevant on Mac but it may be slightly different from your issue).

[DavidMWright]

Right, I've switched over to using the .odt format, and having edited all the bullets they seem to be solidly there with no problems.