I was helping someone update a post and the bullets showed up in edit but not on the main site. I thought of some issues right away:

• Copying and pasting from Microsoft Word ™ is always asking for trouble if you don’t use the special WordPress insert box.
• Maybe a glitch between the theme (created with Artisoft) and the current version of WordPress.

As you can see, though, the bullets work fine here. Maybe this worked because:

• This was a new post that was typed in.
• Their post was an edited version of a previous post.

The problem text was about the delay until mid-February in being able to file federal 2010 tax returns (copied from Notepad and bulleted through the Edit Post screen):

• those that itemize deductions with a schedule A,
• those that claim Education credits for higher education (up to $4,000 of tuition on form 8917) and
• those that claim the new $250 Educator Expense Deduction.

These didn’t bullet correctly until (and I don’t know why) I pressed enter in front of the 2nd line and clicked on bullet.

As it turns out with the other person’s problem, it was the theme. When I designed the theme, I modified another theme of mine that did not allow bullets to show, only indents. I modified the them to allow bullets.

Problem solved!