Office 2004, Word Bullets and Styles

[yakisoba]

I am using MS Office 2004, and noticed that the default bullets which are based on the Symbol font don't work. They are supposed to be little black circles, but show up as open rectangles. In fact even if you try to insert any character from the Symbol font, they look like the rectangles. So clearly, something is wrong with that font.

So anyway, I started messing with the Styles to get the bullet behavior I wanted based on the Wingdings font. Well, I monkeyed around too much and have thoroughly hosed the styles so that the bullets don't line up right, the font changes to Times New Roman no matter which font you are using,etc. I want to scrap all that and start over. I've tried deleting the Normal.dot file, but that didn't seem to have an effect.

Any ideas short of reinstalling Office?

Thanks.