How can you do this? Is there a command (such as %%d for degrees)?
if the bullet was the last character you put in, subsequent characters are going to be in whatever font the "dot" was copied from. simply change your current font back to the originating one. personally, i would do all the typing first, substituting a unique character sequence for the bullet and rep[lace them with bullets later. maybe use a search and replace system.
One solution that comes to mind: create your document in word or wordperfect etc, save as an rtf file in the mtext editor import the rtf and the bullets and numbering will be intact. There are some size limitations known with importing the rtf files, but that's where creativity comes into play.