# Bullet Points Formatting after Headline \[or any styled text\]

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**Category:** Scrivener for macOS\
**Tags:** bug, text-editing, styles\
**Created:** [May 4, 2025, 6:29pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/bullet-points-formatting-after-headline-or-any-styled-text/147224 "2025-05-04T18:29:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![marksealey](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/marksealey/32/259_2.png) [@marksealey](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/marksealey)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2025, 8:07pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/bullet-points-formatting-after-headline-or-any-styled-text/147224/14 "2025-06-02T20:07:10Z")

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Not sure that was what I meant - sorry ☹

Although experiencing a rare L&L bug like this one for phantom lists has produced (at least in my case lately) several duplicate bullets (usually of different sizes), spurious bullets and improperly indented lists, I was wondering whether your referring to the occurrence of a Heading 1 - as the ‘styled text’ - followed by a list immediately beneath it could be **'interrupted/'broken up** by the insertion of a space, which would be invisible; and which would aim to restrict any formatting for each object (a heading, a list) to just that object and allow them to behave as they should.

It **seems** to me (and I know this is an uninformed guess) that the attributes of the list, particularly where it begins and ends, are ‘spilling over’ and affecting the attributes of - in this case - a Heading above (or even below) it. By giving that same Heading a bullet etc. Yes?

What’s odd (again: speculation) is that I can strip all styles (‘No Style’) from any given portion of a page; cut all its text; paste it into _BBEdit_; remove indents/TABs and bullets; paste it back into _Scrivener_ both which ‘Paste’ and ‘Paste and match Style’; see correct formatting; Save the Project. And on re-opening, one or more of those phenomena is visible.

I can certainly live with that. As I’ve said _Scrivener_ is one of those apps I really enjoy using. But I’m so obsessive about detail that I’d like to get everything looking ‘just so’, if I can.

But if I can’t - at least for the moment - I’m not going to ‘complain’ 🙂 .

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