some publications use numbered or
bulleted lists to draw attention to
certain parts of the text you can notice
a big difference between documents that
use only large paragraphs of text versus
documents that make good use of bulleted
and numbered lists publisher makes it
really easy to apply bullets or numbers
to existing text or to text that you're
about to type right now we're working
with our piano flier I had to resize
this text box so that I could add
another text box with some more
information about the piano lessons if
you're working along with me at home on
this flyer you'll want to insert a text
box and some similar text too so that we
can work on bulleted and numbered lists
together now let's select this text box
and zoom in you'll notice that when we
click the + button we zoom in on the
specific text box that's selected as you
can see this is a list of details about
the piano lessons that I offer it might
be nice to have them in a bulleted or
numbered list to help draw attention to
them and to make my flyer stand out the
first thing we need to do is select the
text now if we want to make this a
numbered list all we need to do is go up
to the formatting toolbar and select the
numbering icon this turns on the
numbered list to turn it off we simply
click the numbering icon again let's
turn it back on now if I place my cursor
at the end of the last numbered bullet
and press enter on my keyboard the
numbered list continues with a new
number now I can type in another detail
about my piano lessons
all right now we have a numbered list
but what if i want to see how bullets
look they may make my flyer look even
better so I want to give those a try the
first thing we need to do is reselect
the text notice that publisher knows not
to highlight the numbers those are going
to change the bullets soon now let's go
up to the formatting toolbar and click
the bullets icon now the numbered list
turns to a bulleted list now we have
dots next to each of our details if we
want to turn those off we just need to
click the bullets icon again since i do
want to leave the bulleted list i'll
select it one more time to turn it back
on if these default numbers or bullets
work for you that's great but if not you
can take the time to choose a different
one from the publisher options or even
create your own the first thing we need
to do is make sure that our text is
highlighted it is and then we go up to
our main menu and select format and then
bullets and numbering the bullets and
numbering dialog box appears by default
we're on the bullets tab but I want to
take a look at our numbering options
first so let's click the numbering tab
we have some other numbering formats and
you can notice any changes down in the
sample window below we have the standard
one two three and we also have Roman
numerals or even ABC we can change the
separator we can leave the classic
period or we can choose a colon we can
change the letter or number that we
start at we can also change the indent
amount which is the space between the
bullet and the text we can
greased it or decrease it now let's take
a look at the bullet section by clicking
on the bullets tab I can easily select
some other bullet styles in the bullet
character section notice in the sample
window below how these change I can also
change the size of my bullet see how
that changes and we can change the
amount of indent just like we could with
the numbers now I'm not really sure if I
like any of these for my piano flyer so
let's choose the character button and
see what some of our other options are
right now we're in the symbol set and we
can see if we like any of these options
I don't really see any that I like but I
could use these as bullet if I wanted to
let's change to a different character
set and see if there are other
characters that we might like to use as
bullets click the drop-down font menu
and now look at all these character sets
that we have to look through four
bullets I think I remember some
interesting bullets in the wing-dings
section so let's scroll down and select
that option there are all sorts of fun
choices here but i'm really looking for
something to do with music you know
maybe it was in the web ding section so
let's select that instead okay I'm going
to look through here and see if I see
anything that has to do with music here
we go I really like these musical notes
I think these will look really great on
the piano lesson flyer so I'll select
that character and click on OK
and now the music character appears is
one of the options for my bullet
characters I just need to select it and
then I can modify the size or the indent
if I like and then click on OK as soon
as I click OK the bullets are changed to
my selected text I'm going to deselect
the text by clicking outside the text
box and now I can see how my new bullets
look so you see that you have some
options when it comes to numbered and
bulleted lists you can simply use the
default numbered lists and bullets for a
quick and easy list or you can take a
little time and customize it as you can
see it really makes a big difference to
the publication I'm going to tweak the
list of my piano lessons flyer a bit
more now so why don't you give numbered
and bulleted lists to try yourself