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 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 paragraph
formatting without bullets.
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 5 and 6, so
I'll click here and press Enter twice.
You can see that after the heading it has continued the numbering, starting with step
6.
If you'd like to change that, all you have to do is right-click the number and go to
Restart at 1.
If you want to change it back, just right-click the number and select Continue Numbering.
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 Wingdings fonts because they have a lot of symbols to choose
from.
You can then scroll through the list of symbols.
When you've 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.
There's a third type of list that we haven't talked about yet, called a multilevel list.
A multilevel list is basically just an outline, and the great part about them is you can easily
turn any bulleted or numbered list into a multilevel 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 Multilevel 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.