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you're creating a word document that
includes the list of items like this
meeting agenda you can format it as
either a bulleted or a numbered list
first you'll need to select the text
you add bullets you can click the
bullets command and if you ever want to
remove them you can just click here
again for more options you can click the
bullets drop down arrow and select the
bullet style that you want if you click
at the end of the list and then press
the Enter key
the next line will automatically have
the same list formatting as soon as you
start typing
when you're done with your list just
press the Enter key twice and the next
line will have normal paragraph
formatting without bullets now there's
another part of this document that I
want to format as a numbered list to do
this select the text and then click the
numbering command or use the drop down
arrow to select the style that you want
actually we want to split this up into
two lists with a heading in between
steps five and six so I'll just click
here and press ENTER twice
and you can see that after the heading
it has continued the numbering beginning
with step 6 if you'd like to change that
all you have to do is right click the
number and choose restart at one
if you want to change it back just right
click it again and select continue
numbering
I'm going to go back to the top and
select my bulleted list
if you want to change the distance
between the bullets and the text you can
click and drag the hanging indent marker
on the ruler
make sure that the entire list is
selected when you do this otherwise
you'll only change the distance for the
current line you'll also want to be sure
to use the hanging indent marker that's
the one that looks like a little upward
facing arrow if you select the left
indent marker just below it you'll move
both the bullets and the list items
which isn't what we want in this case
you know while I'm here I'd like to
change these bullets to something
different but I'm going to click the
drop-down arrow I don't really see any
that I want that's okay because there
are a lot of other symbols we can choose
from just go to define new bullet
and click symbol
then select a font I'd recommend using
any of the wing-dings fonts because they
have a lot of symbols to choose from
you can then scroll through the list of
symbols and when you found when you like
select it and click OK
I think I'll customize this boa a little
more quick font
and let's change the color of the bullet
I'm going to choose this green color
click OK to close these dialog boxes
and your customized bullets will appear
in the document now there's actually a
third type of list that we haven't
talked about yet called a multi-level
list a multi-level list is basically
just an outline and the great part about
them is you can easily turn any bulleted
or numbered list into a multi-level list
for example under news and events I'd
like to add some specific news items
I'll press ENTER to create a new item
and then press tab on my keyboard then I
can type each item pressing enter after
each one
if you want to increase the level of an
item just click at the beginning of the
line then press the tab key one or more
times and it will move to the right and
if you want to decrease the level of an
item hold the shift key and press tab
and it will move to the left just like
with any list you can change the bullet
or numbering style if you click a list
item and select a different bullet it
will change all the items on that level
you can also reformat the entire list by
clicking the multi-level list command
and then selecting one of the built-in
styles
as you can see there
of different ways you can format your
lists so take some time to tailor them
to fit the style of your document