To increase or decrease the indent and change the spacing between a bullet or number and the text, see How do I increase or decrease the space between a bullet or number and the text in a line? in this article.
To change one bullet or number, place the cursor at the start of the line that you want to change. To change multiple bullets or numbers, select the text in all of the bullets or numbers that you want to change.
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To change the format of just one or some of the bullet or number styles in a list, such as the color or size, place the cursor at the start of the line that you want to change before opening the Bullets and Numbering box. Your changes will apply only to the selected lines.
Check to make sure you're putting bullets or numbers in a Text box, and not a Title box. In a Text box, you get a number or bullet every time you press Enter. If you press Ctrl + Enter, you get additional lines without bullets (good for details or notes on a bulleted or numbered line).
In a Title box, the text is expected to be a single line heading or title. You can use numbers or bullets, but it treats all lines of text as a single line, resulting in a single bullet or number.
To increase or decrease the space between a bullet or number and the text in a line, place the cursor at the start of the line of text. To view the ruler, on the View tab, in the Show group, click the Ruler check box. On the ruler, click the hanging indent (as shown in diagram below) and drag to change the space between the bullet or number and the corresponding text.
On the left side of the PowerPoint window, in the pane that contains the Outline and Slides tabs, click the Slides tab, and then click a slide thumbnail that you want to add bulleted or numbered text to.
Default bullet or numbering style is immediately applied to your selected text. To see a gallery of formatting options for your list, click the small downward pointing arrow on the Bullets or Numbering button:
In bulleted lists, each paragraph beginswith a bullet character. In numbered lists, each paragraph beginswith an expression that includes a number or letter and a separatorsuch as a period or parenthesis. The numbers in a numbered listare updated automatically when you add or remove paragraphs in thelist. You can change the type of bullet or numbering style, theseparator, the font attributes and character styles, and the typeand amount of indent spacing.
You cannot use the Type tool toselect the bullets or numbers in a list. Instead, edit their formattingand indent spacing using the Bullets And Numbering dialog box, theParagraph panel, or the Bullets And Numbering section of the Paragraph Stylesdialog box (if the bullets or numbers are part a style).
A quick wayto create a bulleted or numbered list is to type the list, selectit, and then click the Bulleted List or Numbered List button in theControl panel. These buttons let you turn the list on or off andswitch between bullets and numbers. You can also make bullets andnumbering part of a paragraph style and construct lists by assigningstyles to paragraphs.
The Left Indent, First Line Indent, and Tab Position settings in the Bullets And Numbering dialog box are paragraph attributes. For that reason, changing these settings in the Paragraph panel also changes bulleted and numbered list formats.
The list of bullet characters is stored in the document,like paragraph and character styles. When you paste or load paragraphstyles from another document, any bullet character used in thosestyles appears in the Bullets And Numbering dialog box, along withthe other bullets defined for the current document.
A defined list can be interruptedby other paragraphs and lists, and can span different stories anddifferent documents in a book. For example, use defined lists tocreate a multi-level outline, or to create a running list of numberedtable names throughout your document. You can also define listsfor separately numbered or bulleted items that are mixed together.For example, in a list of questions and answers, define one listfor numbering the questions and another for numbering the answers.
This is driving me nuts. Have used Thunderbird for years, and frequently use a numbered list, with sub-bullets. But recently, it has begun to make the next number 2, whenever I use a sub-bullet. Like this....
I want to create a bulleted list to use as a Checklist to accomplish some things. Under some of the items there will be sub-items with detailed instructions. I want to be able to view/print the list with just the main items shown but I want the user to be able to click each item and expand down the sub-items so they can see what they're supposed to do. Then they can click the upper item to hide the sub items.
I have to take my bulleted list and assign the top level as Heading 1, sub bullets as heading 2, sub-sub bullets as heading 3, etc. Problem is when I do that, it unformats them as a bulleted list. So, I then have to select them all and re-configure them as bulleted lists and put them back in the proper bullet/sub bullet/etc. Then, it shows me a little triangle icon next to each line that does let me do the hide/collapse of each section so this is great.
So I went to Outline view and everything just shows up as a giant bulleted list. I tried using the left/right arrow buttons and Alt+Shift+right but that only changed the icon of the bullets but didn't actually indent anything in the Outline view.
So, I went back to the regular document and highlighted the top level bullets and made them heading 2 and highlighter their sub-bullets and made them heading 3. This made Outline view look great, but the main document lost all the bulleted formatting and now everything is just plain text with no indenting at all so it's impossible to read.
Is there any way to make a collapsible bullet while in the main view of Word or is there any way to assign something as a header while keeping it in a bulleted list? I seem to be stuck between two options that half work. :)
As Paul suggested, you should apply bullet formatting to the headings (you do that in the Multilevel List dialog box). Note that if direct formatting is present, you may still have to (re-)apply heading styles to text.
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