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Word trouble with tables/bullets/macros


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delfin

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I'm using Word 2000, and developing a template that will be used in 2000, 2002 and 2003. Word has a nasty tendency to execute functions one way when you're doing them manually and differently when you're running them as a macro, and I'm getting hung up by one of these instances.

The situation: I have a document full of one-row, two-column tables containing mostly text. I'll call the style in the first column Old Label and the second Old Text.

What I want to do is convert the contents of the table to text, changing Old Label style to a new New Label style and Old Text to New Text. I have a macro that will go through a document and perform this conversion, using Word's standard Find/Replace functionality and Convert Table to Text -> Paragraph Marks -> Convert Nested Tables.

My problem is that if I do this manually, it works fine, but if I run the macro version, Word is stripping out the bullets.

Is there an easy workaround for this?
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The solution could be as easy as including the "Bullets" in your macro. Have you tried doing this? If that doesn't work, post a sample file and I'll have a look at it.

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