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when you're creating a word document
that includes a list of items like this
meeting agenda you can format it as
either a bulleted or numbered list first
you'll need to select the text to add
bullets you can just 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 style
that you want
if you click at the end of a list item
and then press the Enter key
the next line will automatically have
the same list formatting
when you're done just press ENTER twice
and the next line will have the normal
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'd like to split this up into two lists
with a heading in between steps five and
six so I'll click here and press ENTER
twice
you can see that after the heading it
has continued the numbering starting
with step six if you'd like to change
that all you have to do is right-click
the number and go to restart at one
if you want to change it back just
right-click the number and select
continue numbering
now I'm going to go back to the top and
select my bulleted list
I'd like to change these bullets to
something different but when I click the
drop-down arrow I don't see one that I
want that's okay because there are lots
of other symbols that we can choose from
just go to define new bullet
and click symbol then select a font I
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 one you like select it and 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 going
to choose this green color click OK to
close these dialog boxes and your
bullets will appear in the document now
there's 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 list 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 one
of the lines just click at the beginning
of the line and then press the tab key
one or more times and if you want to
decrease the level of a line 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 on a list item and select a
different bullet it will change all of
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 so
there are a lot of different ways that
you can format your lists and you can
tailor them to fit the style of your
document