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MS Word Issues When Using Bullet Function
When I try to use the bullet function, it doesn't work properly. An example would be that the word I am trying to bullet does not bullet but the word in the line above does, and when this happens it ...
I am confident that Word is acting as designed, even if that design may not be intuitive.
I suspect, but do not know, that your un-bulletted line is preceded by a line break rather than a paragraph break. Bullets, in Word, are based on paragraphs, not lines.
You can easily distinguish between line breaks and paragraph breaks on your screen by displaying non-printing formatting marks. Nonprinting Formatting Marks by Suzanne Barnhill, MVP
The best way to set up bullets was outlined some time ago in How to control bullets in Ribbon Versions of Word by Shauna Kelly.