Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Bullets in .doc/.docx documents always become "^"?

At 21:19 13/04/2012 -0700, Advrk Aplmrkt wrote:
> Thanks to Brian Barker, using a replacement table to replace the 
> Symbol font with the OpenSymbol font worked to make the bullet 
> points correctly.

Since this worked, it may be helpful to others to have it articulated:
o Go to Tools | Options... | LibreOffice | Fonts.
o Tick "Apply replacement table".
o Enter "Symbol" and "OpenSymbol".

> I don't mean to be too inquisitive, but does someone know why and 
> how this is the solution, ...

I'm guessing, but is it possible that the Symbol font in the 
generating system (wherever it comes from) has the bullets in a 
different place from where they are in the version of Symbol you have 
- but that OpenSymbol has them in the same place?  Is it a Unicode 
issue?  Remember that word processor documents (generally) carry font 
names, not the fonts themselves.

> ... and could OpenSymbol be made the default so that compatibility 
> with Word documents will be improved?

I cannot know whether that would generally be an improvement.  But 
it's what you have arranged by this setting, of course.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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