When you're creating a word document that includes a list of items, like this
meeting agenda, you can format it is either a bulleted or a numbered list.
First you'll need to select the text.
To add bullets, you can click the Bullet 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 with formatting as soon as you
start typing.
When you're done with your list, just press the Enter key twice, and the next
line 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.
I actually want to split this up into two lists with a heading in between steps
five and six. Just click here and press Enter twice.
You can see that after the heading ,it has continued the numbering, beginning
with step six.
if you'd like to change that, all you have to do is right-click the number and
choose Restart at 1.
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 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 will 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 or something
different, but when I click the drop-down arrow, I don't really see any that I want.
That's OK, because there are a lot of other symbols we can choose from.
Just go to you Define New Bullet
and click Symbol
Then, select a font.
I'd recommend using any of the Wingdings fonts because they have a lot of symbols
to choose from.
You can scroll through the list of symbols and when you've found one you want,
select it and click OK.
I think I'll customize this bullet a little more.
Click Font.
Let's change the 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 that 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.
Press Enter to create a new item
and then press Tab on your keyboard.
Then, you 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.
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 number 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 Multil-level Lest command
and then selecting one of the built-in styles.
As you can see, there are a lot
of different ways you can format your lists, so take some time to tailor them to fit the
style of your document.