Here's a way to fake it. Start a paragraph. Choose your symbol (Insert Symbol). Type the first bullet. Format Paragraph. Under "special" choose Hanging and under "by" choose 0.2.
In Word 2000, after you do this for a couple of paragraphs, Word seems to know you want it to be a bullet and puts the bullets in for you.
If this doesn't work that way for 97, you can insert your symbol, type your paragraph and repeat this until you have all your bullets. Then highlight all the paragraphs and format them once.
Hope this helps.