backspace key not working on bullets

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KiranK

I have office 2007 home and student

In my word document I press bullet button in the paragraph part of the
ribbon. A bullet shows up. But then l press backspace because I either dont
need it or I misplaced it, or any other reason. But the backspace does not do
anything, meaning the bullet doesnt go away and the cursor line stays where
it is. I cannot delete bullets at all with backspace even ones that have been
there longer lets say at the beginning of the doc and were created when I
could actually backspace on a bullet.

I did not have this problem ever before. I am a student so I am constantly
using bullets. I recently reformat my computer and when I reinstalled word
using only the Product Key this started happening. Someone told me that it
may be because I didnt use the CD and that I should uninstall and then
install with the word cd and product key, I did that but it still doesnt
work. A tech person at school had me delete the 'normal' file. I think it was
called normal.docm or something like that, she said that it would recreate
itself and maybe the 'normal' layout setting had problems. This didnt fix
anything.

Last week I actually couldnt backspace on text either. Like if i had a
paragraph chunck of text (with no bullets or anything) and if i pressed enter
to send something down a line I couldnt bring it back up afterwards. However,
this problem went away when I played with the ruler at the top I think.

In options 'typing replaces selected text is selected.

Thanks for your help
 
Please stop starting new threads on this issue. People will get worn out
with reading them and be LESS likely to try to help.
 
When you use the Bullet button on the ribbon, you're not just
inserting a bullet. You're inserting a paragraph style that happens to
be formatted with bulleting. To get rid of it, either delete the whole
paragraph, or change its Style to something else.
 
How do I change the style?
Sorry I am not very good with computers, I can only understand the basics.
 
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