MS Word Bulleting problem...PLZ Help

Hey everyone. Lately I've been having a problem with my word for mac and its driving me insane. The problem is that I cannot seem to use my bullets as I used to before. In word, when im taking notes, I used to press shift 8 and the asterisk key would appear and after writing a sentence and pressing enter it would turn into a bullet. Furthermore, when I press enter a new bullet shows up and if I press TAB then the bullet would change into another bullet and become further indented. This had stopped happening all of a sudden and its extremely difficult for me to takes notes in class. Could anyone please help me out and help me fix the settings that might have changed.
eg. * i type here and when i press enter this line is bulleted.
* automatically this line should become a bullet and if i press tab it should become another form of bullet and if i keep pressing tab it would turn inti
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This isn't happening anymore and all I get is a bullet on the same line such as this.
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Can anyone please help me out.
Thankyou.

go to the Tools menu 'AutoCorrect', 'AutoFormat As You Type' and make sure the 'Automatic Bulleted Lists' option is checked.

Still not working

michaelstumpf said:

go to the Tools menu 'AutoCorrect', 'AutoFormat As You Type' and make sure the 'Automatic Bulleted Lists' option is checked.

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I went and checked in the tools menu...the automated bulleted lists is checked but im still having the same problem. Any other possible ways?
Thanks

Select Format > Bullets and Numbering... and make sure an appropriate style (and not "None") is selected.