I'm creating a checklist for an upcoming
trip and right now it looks a little
boring so I'd like to format it so that
it has a bullet in front of each item
adding bullets in Word 2010 is easy all
you have to do is select some text
and then click the bullets command which
is in the paragraph group you should now
see some bullets on the left side of the
text if you decide you don't want
bullets click it again and they'll
disappear
for more options you can click the
bullets drop-down arrow there are
several different bullet types that you
can choose from
you can also create a numbered list
using the numbering command and it also
has a drop-down arrow so that you can
change the numbering style
since this is a checklist I'd like to
have an actual checkbox before each line
I don't see a bullet here that really
looks like a checkbox but luckily we can
create one go to define new bullet and
then click symbol
now you can select any of these symbols
to be your bullet as you can see there
are a lot of different symbols to choose
from and you can also scroll down to see
more
if you want you can change the font but
the wing-dings font has a really big
selection of symbols so I'm just gonna
stick with that
up here I see a box that's exactly what
I'm looking for now click OK
while I'm here I think I'll customize it
a little more click font and let's
change the color of the bullet
I'm gonna choose this dark red color
because it'll match the headings in my
document
and there they are I like the way this
looks so I'm going to just go through
each category and add these bullets to
each one and the new bullet now appears
under the recently used bullets
this looks a lot more like a checklist
now but now I'm noticing something else
that I'd like to change there's a
checkbox for freeze-dried meals I'd
actually like to list each meal
individually while still keeping them
grouped under freeze-dried meals we can
do this with a multi-level list place
the insertion point at the end of one of
the lines in the list and press ENTER to
start a new line then press the tab key
and it will move this line to the right
and then type a few lines of text
now all of these lines are organized
under the freeze-dried meals line then I
can add each meal so that they're
grouped under each day
and I'm just using the tab key to move
the lines to the right as needed
all of the meals are now in this mini
outline and this is called a multi-level
list you can change the formatting by
selecting it and then clicking on the
multi-level list command
and then select a style
okay I don't really like this formatting
and it doesn't match the rest of the
document so I'm going to undo that and
I'm just going to manually change these
bullets
place the insertion point on one of the
lines that you want to change and then
select a bullet type and it changes all
of the lines that are on that same level
we can do the same thing for the days of
the week let's choose a numbered list
for this one
there this looks better now we have a
nice organized checklist for our camping
trip like what you just saw
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