How Can I Replace a Character with a New Bullet Point
If I Copy and Paste a Pdf with Bullet Points into Word, Word No Longer Detects the Bullet Points I Created a Word Document, Added Some Bullets and Printed to...
If I copy and paste a PDF with bullet points into Word, Word no longer detects the bullet points
I created a Word document, added some bullets and printed to PDF and the result is
I then copy and paste the text from the PDF into Word, and I get
I understand that it no longer see's the black circles as bullet points
I don't see any options for a magic paste in Word
My question therefore is, is there something like a find and replace operation that will convert the black circles into bullet points, so I end up with something like the first picture in this post.
1 Answer
- Copy the bullet and the spaces that follow, press Ctrl+H, paste the copied item on the Find what box.
- On the Replace with box, insert a space.
- Click More. Put your cursor on Replace with box. Click Format. Select Style.
- On the Replace Style window, select List Bullet. Click OK.
- Set Search to
All. The image below shows how the Find and Replace will look like. Click Replace All.
Caveat: A space is inserted before One, Two and Three.
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