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When formatted text is pasted from MSWord to a TRichEdit control, the bullets are well formatted (on the display) but after;

Fetching the rtf data from the TRichEdit control using TStringStream,
Saving the stream's DataString to a database and then
Loading the saved rtf string back to the TRichEdit control
The bullets are being formatted as fullstops

Using Delphi 7, Windows xp, msftedit.dll for RichEdit

Please assist

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Set the PlainText property to false, then
RichEd.Lines.SaveToFile('...\blah.rtf');
or use a TMemoryStream not a TStringStream.

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I found that by changing the font charset to ANSI_Charset it is possible to retain the formatting but the moment I change the font Name to "Times New Roman" and the font size to "11" the formatting for the bullets gets lost

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What is the relation of the Charset and the font name since changing the font name seems to change the way the bullets are being interprated

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The bullet is a specific character in the font. You can find it if you look in Windows charmap.

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