Thanks Jim, I had the same issue, legacy, importing etc but with the bullet and 
symbol. When I applied the bullet tag my text went to Greek and the bullet 
symbol was another symbol.
Ugh! I left out a step so when Megha tried to assist she could not.
Sorry Megha, I had so many deadlines and FM9 bugs were bouncing all over me. 

In Paragraph Designer autonumber I highlighted the bullet, went to Character 
map got the bullet, went to Character Designer sized the bullet and did Global 
update, then did a global apply. Have been doing this for all docs. I did not 
do a re-import. We do 99% legacy and they are very individual so most of the 
time a template import is not effective. 
I however do not have the CleanImport plug-in.

This "Framers" thing is the greatest!
Thanks all.

Karen M 
Not an expert...

-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Pinkham, Jim
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 10:44 AM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Of Autonumbers, "Symbols," and FM 9

I'm running into a seemingly strange phenomenon with FM 9. I'm working with a 
lot of legacy documents that have formatting issues, and part of my workflow 
involves importing and replacing formats using a template formatted the way I 
wish it to be -- typically, with the very useful CleanImport plug-in.

In FM 9, I'm finding that when I do this import, I now get the unexpected side 
effect that the symbol used in the Autonumber Format area of the Paragraph 
Designer changes. For example:

Original Format

Font

Unintentionally Modified Format

Font

?\t 

Wingdings

?\t

Wingdings

?\t

Wingdings

?\t

Wingdings


I'm not sure how or why this changes. I have developed a workaround. I go to my 
source document, do a Global Update, Numbering Properties, for each of the 
paragraph formats in question, applying this to all paragraphs in the source 
document that have the individual tags in question. I am not changing the 
formats in any way, simply re-applying them. Then I re-import the paragraph and 
character formats to all of the remaining files, and then the paragraphs with 
these various "list bullets," for want of a better term, are all restored to 
normalcy.

So it's not the end of the world, just an unwelcome extra step. Any ideas?

Jim
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