Customized bullets in RH 7

Hi,
Has anyone created a customized bullet in RoboHelp 7? I'm trying to create a nested bullet that uses a dash. The only way that I can figure out is to manually type the dash for each bullet item. Is there another way?
Thanks.

Hmm, if you've got your own bullet graphic it used to work well in good old RH X5: Right-click the bullet item > Select Bullets and Numbering > Specify a Bullet image
RH7 (less old, but in my humble opinion also less good than X5) has same fuctionality, but it has stopped working for me:
When using the Bullets and Numbering dialog for inserting an image as a bullet, it initially works fine. In my case the path to the graphic is a relative one (e.g. ../../MyGraphics/MyImage.jpg). But only until I close the topic. The next time I open it, RH has forcefully corverted the path so it points to a non-relative location on the C: drive (where of course the graphic is not located). Consequently I get the dreaded red placeholder square instead of my bullet graphic.
This has effectively made it impossible for me to use own graphics a bullets since I upgraded to RH 7. I wonder if there any reason behind this behaviour?
All best,
Morten

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Bit of an edit to this one.
I've got several sections of text through my doc, Tips and Notes, currently this text is just highlighted and box bound. But I instead want it to have a custom bullet image, like a ! or something similar. I've found the images I want to use in the 'Bullet and Numbering..' menu of RH, but using these to create a style creates a new list style, I instead want to edit my existing Note and Tip styles so the image is used, otherwise I have to re-apply the list style all over the doc in place of the Tip and Note styles I have now. Would be very nice if I didnt have to do this.
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I felt I owed it to all of my followers to let everyone know that I finally got my customized bullets. I worked with someone who had far more experience than I do in CSS and even he was baffled by how RH chose to interpret the CSS.
Here is the workaround that we came up with to get customized solid blue bullets for a first level indent ( fondly known as Bullet1):
For all of you newbies, like me, the following just formats the text of the bullet, not the bullet itself. The margin-left has to do with the amount of space between the text and the bullet.
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margin-top: 7pt;
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font-size: 11pt;
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