as you can see on this fourth slide I
have an image on the left and a content
placeholder on the right and this
placeholder I can insert text a table
a chart a picture or another clip arts
like this one you can see that the
bullet appears by default in this type
of placeholder in this slide layout I do
want to enter a list of steps for the
team exercise so I'll just place the
insertion points in the placeholder and
type the first step in the exercise now
press ENTER on your keyboard and type
the next step as I pressed enter the new
bullets appeared so I could type the
next step in my list and we'll do the
same thing again
the bullet that is used is a default
bullet that is defined by the theme of
your presentation we are using the urban
theme so this is a default bullets for
urban but what if you don't want the
bullets defined by the theme well don't
worry
you're not stuck with it you can easily
change the bullet style so a specific
bullets will always appear on this slide
simply select the bulleted list and text
on the Home tab you'll notice the
bullets commands and the paragraph group
is highlighted this just shows you that
the text you have selected is a bulleted
list you can click the commands you
toggle the bulleted list off and on to
change the bulleted style select the
drop-down arrow next to the bullets
command we can see several bullet styles
and the one that is currently being used
is selected as you hover over each a
live preview of the bullet style is
displayed on the slide if you see one
that you like simply left-click it and
the new bullets will appear in the list
but what if you don't like any of those
bullet choices or once you change the
color or size of the current bullet just
make sure your text is still selected
and then select the drop-down arrow next
to the bullets commands again at the
bottom of the menu selects bullets and
numbering a dialog box appears at the
top you have two tabs bulleted and
numbered which you can choose between
from here you can do several different
things you can switch to a different
bullet style choose to display no
bullets or change the color of the
existing bullet you can even change the
size of the bullets if you want it to
appear larger or smaller than the text
if you click the picture button the
picture bullet dialog box appears
from here you can choose from many
picture bullets that are used in the
office 2007 templates there are some
simple ones and some interesting ones
you can even import your own pictures
once you have one you like just click OK
to insert the bullets I don't want to
use a picture so we'll just click cancel
if you click the customize button the
symbol dialog box appears
we can use a scroll bar to scroll
through these choices or the font
drop-down menu to choose another set to
view there are some good bullet options
in the wing-dings section so I'm going
to select that oh look at all of these
new choices here I think I like this
arrow now click OK in the symbol dialog
box the arrow symbol now appears in the
list of possible bullet choices hmm
I like the arrow but I think this open
circle may look nice I'll just select it
and then click OK so we'll apply it to
my slide but what if I decide I want to
change a bulleted list to a numbered
list or add a numbered list from scratch
just select the text and click the
drop-down arrow next to the numbering
commands on the Home tab I can choose
one of the options from the menu or
choose bullets and numbering at the
bottom we'll just select that and open
the bullets and numbering dialog box
from here you can select any of the
options and change the size and color of
the numbers you can also determine the
number that you want to use to start the
list I think this one is simple and a
numbered list will work on this slide
since these are steps the teams have to
take there that looks really good now
before we wrap up let's take a look at
the other slides by default a bullet was
in the placeholder when we inserted our
text on slide 3 but I don't really need
a bullet here because I don't have a lip
to remove the bullet all you need to do
is select the text and click the bullets
command there that looks good
bulleted and numbered lists are used
often in presentations because they are
a great way to take a paragraph of text
and make it easier to read especially on
slides for a presentation lists are much
easier for your audience to read spend
some time trying the bullets and
numbering commands to see how they work
I'm going to continue working on and
formatting my presentation and don't
worry we'll fix those spelling mistakes
later