Questions tagged [bullets]
Bullets (or bullet points) are small dots, squares, dashes or graphics that begin a short descriptive phrase.
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How can I save an existing custom bullet style?
I'm modifying an existing PPTX file that I downloaded, and I like the custom style of a bullet.
When I try to create a new bullet list, that custom style isn't available. I don't have the PNG for it ...
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How to create a horizontal list in bullet points MS Word?
I am using Office 365, MS Word. I need to create a bullet points list horizontally. But in all the places where I searched, it gave me the option of adding a table with one row and including the ...
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Is there a way to create persistent bullets in Power Point?
I have added three custom bullets to the Style Master Text placeholder, however, I would like to have a choice to choose one of those three bullets on the fly. These come in a custom font.
This will ...
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Line spacing before and after bullet list (Word 365; Windows 10)
When I write a bulleted list in Word 365, I would like to dispense with the line space between the text line preceding the list and the first bullet point, and the line space coming between the last ...
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With Microsoft Edge, how to copy bullet list from one WebPage to another ? why does Paste of Bullet List contain invalid HTML?
I need help to copy selected text (from from Microsoft Community Website) which is a bullet list to another for posting;
With Edge, copying bullets incurs invalid HTML information
Edge App - copy ...
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Force MS Word to use the same bullet in nested lists
In MS Word, if you try indenting a list item, it gives you an ugly open circle. How can I make it not change the bullet type on indent and have it always use a filled circle?
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Why is Word 2019 not saving changes that I make to a bullet Style after I close my document?
I've made multiple bullet styles in Word 2019. For one of them, I want to adjust the position of the bullet slightly. According to the value for bullet position (accessed by right-clicking on the ...
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Microsoft Word: Shortcut to add a sub bullet (Inside a table)
The way to add a sub bullet in Word with hotkey is hit TAB key. But I can't do that if bullets are inside a table.
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Create indented sub-numbered points in MS PowerPoint numbered lists
I'm well aware of that this question has been asked already, but none of answers provided don't work for me (including using tab etc.).
Could this be connected with the slide master my company ...
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How to reduce the vertical whitespace between contiguous bullet points in MS PowerPoint
Consider, as an example, the vertical whitespace between the first and second list element, i.e. their associated texts.
It'd like to reduce this whitespace.
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Office 365 - Default Style Update for Lists
I have searched all over and have not found a working solution.
I am trying to adjust the number list and bullet lists with less indent spacing. I have tried a number of different methods (from all ...
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Can I use an asterisk to make a bullet point in a Slack message?
tl;dr Can I use Markdown's asterisk symbol (*) to make a bullet point list in Slack? Slack's documentation says that yes. But it is the only source where I found this. And this simply isn't working in ...
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Create multi-character text bullet as part of MS Word style definition
I'm writing a long series of dialogs, and I'd like paragraph styles to include the character's name as a bullet, as in styles Mary and Peter below:
Mary: That's an absurd idea!
Peter: Well, at ...
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How do you change bullet/numbered list format of only certain parts?
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1.1.
1.1.1.
1.1.2.
2.
2.1.
2.2.
3.
3.1.
4.
4.1.
4.1.1
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Let's say a bulleted list goes like this. I want to change the bullet format for specific parts, without changing ...
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First character of a bullet list automatically aligned at right with no option to change it
I've been working 100 hours and more in the same text document. Suddenly, today, I tried to copy-paste a block of text from the web into a bullet list and realized there was a problem I never saw ...
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Proper bullet symbol in Outlook?
I am writing a document in French and I am missing the long dash symbol which is the one to use for lists. Unfortunately I only have these ridiculous symbols that nobody wants to use:
How can I get ...
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How do I stop my bullet point appearing in bold?
In Word 2016, I have a Style for bullet points, and every time that style appears in a table it appears in Bold, even if the 'B' icon is not highlighted. Clicking it switched the Bold off instead of ...
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MS Word Bullets in styles disappearing in O365/2016
Similar to this old thread here, but new problem the last 6 months or so.
Background: Everyone on the team uses Word 2016 (full local application) as part of our Enterprise O365 setup. Everyone is on ...
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Nested bulleted list in Slack
Is there a way to do nested bulleted lists with the new Slack markdown / formatting tools?
E.g. I tried this
* something
* nested something
* something else
but it doesn't render it as
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Custom indentation for long sentence when using bullet listing?
When a sentence is too long to fit on one line, the first word of the next line has the same indentation 'start point' as the line above it. I'd like the indentation or the start to begin 2 or 4 white ...
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Pasting unformatted text into a bulleted list changes the indentation
A bug that I have long lived with in Word, but that I'm growing increasingly frustrated with, is the following behaviour:
copy some unformatted text, e.g. from Notepad
put cursor in a new line of a ...
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Microsoft Word - Is it possible to create two separate lists (one bullet point, one numbered) at the same indent level?
Is this an issue with the new version of Word? I could have sworn it was possible in the past. I tried scouring the internet for solutions but haven't had any luck.
MS Word - Desktop Version 1902 (...
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How to replace bullets with footnotes (with superscript numbers) in Word
I have a Microsoft Word document
that has slightly over 600 numbered / bulleted lines (i.e., paragraphs).
Something like this:
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,¶
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Word Organizer does not copy style indentation or hanging indent correctly
When I use the import/export organizer to copy certain Word styles, it changes the indent and hanging indent when copying. For instance:
Indent: Left: 0",
Hanging: 1.25"
changes to
Indent: Left: 0....
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Preserve indentations of nested bullet list when copying and pasting to plain text from Word
If I have a nested bulleted list in Word, such as:
When I paste it into Notepad or any other plain text document, the bullets lose their indents:
How can I make the plain text version automatically ...
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How to solve strange behavior of self-created styles with bullets
Everyone who uses bullets in Word knows, when you hit enter after an empty bullet (so no text after the bullet), when using List Paragraph style, the bullet disappears and the active style will become ...
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Insert Bullet Points in Excel
Is it possible to create a list within in a Cell using bullet points ?
I currently use ALT + Enter for a line break, but it would look better if I could too add bullet points.
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How do I create a header on only one page in Microsoft Word? [duplicate]
I'm writing a multi-page resume and I have a long bulleted list that breaks in between page one and two. Since I have a lot of details about my time at one company I want to have the company's name ...
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Combining several Word documents and sorting by header/subheader
Each month, I put together a monthly report for my supervisor. The report has achievements from the past month of 6 departments. Under each department are several subheaders for different projects and ...
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Why is my bullet formatting reset after changing a single bullet in Microsoft Word?
I have a custom multilevel list style in Microsoft Word 2010 which uses a mix of bullets and numbers.
Whenever I try to change the bullet for single level, it ends up changing list items from every ...
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Word 2007-How to remove all bullets but keep numbering
When I copy a web page into word, often word adds bullet points where there were none in the original web page, which need to be removed.
Sometimes there ARE numbered parts in the web page which need ...
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Microsoft Word 2016 on Mac: How do I prevent bullet points from becoming highlighted?
I am working on a very large bullet-pointed outline in which I frequently add highlighted text. If I highlight all the text on a bullet point, word automatically highlights the bullet point as well. I ...
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Word 2013: Bullets don't appear when creating bullet list
In one particular word document (.docx in Word 2013) I keep encountering an issue where I'm unable to create bulleted lists, and I've tried everything I can think of to make the bullets appear.
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How can I link a numbered bullet point to a sentence that references that bullet point and changes whenever the bullet point does?
I have a list of procedures such as
Do this
Do that
Do the same thing as done in step 2, but differently
Do some more of this
Wave that over there
In this example I have one bullet point referenced ...
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Making numeric bullets indent properly in Word
When I type "1." or "10." in Word, it auto generates bullet properly as follows:
But when I change its value to three digits it gets extra indent which definitely looks bad :
I have to manually ...
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OneNote 2013 Bullet Indents
OneNote 2013: I would like to stop my bullets from indenting. I would like them to be aligned the same as my to do check boxes. Is this possible? I have tried formatting them in MS Word and copying ...
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Powerpoint 2010: Hotkey - Indent Nested List
I am using the Microsoft Office 2010 version of Powerpoint.
How do I shift the indentation of a nested list to the left or to the right, while typing?
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How do I prevent Microsoft Word from pasting a picture as a bullet?
I'm trying to make a printable list of keyboard shortcuts using images to take the place of the Win key, Ctrl key, etc. The problem is, every time I paste one of these images at the start of a line, ...
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Word shortcut to start bulleted list
I know there exists a keyboard shortcut CTRL+SHIFT+L to create a new bullet point, but this does not add the appropriate indentation. Is there a keyboard shortcut that exists or that I can define to ...
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Windows 7, PowerPoint 2003
I'm including a custom-made bullet point in a PowerPoint 2003 presentation.
Will a user on another machine be able to see it and use it?
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How can I paste newline-separated text into a bulleted list without creating new bullets?
I have a bulleted list in an Outlook 2010 email and I am trying to paste a newline-separated list of text items into one of the bullets. When I do this, it's bulleting each line and I don't want it ...
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How do I turn off bullet list formatting all of the lines to bullet lists in Word 2013?
I having the issue of bullet listing all of the lines when I just wanted to make 1 line be bullet listed.
Here is a GIF showing what happens when I want to make "3 units" bullet-listed.
How do I ...
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How to change bullet color in OSX Notes
I'm trying to change the theme of my Notes app (to ultimate get green text on a black background). I changed the background by changing the paper.tiff file in Notes.app/Resources to black, and ...
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How can I use the contextual menu key to insert a bullet or number list?
I moved from using Word 2003 to 2013 with a brief spell using 2007 and 2010. The more Word becomes intuitive, the less it enables users to do what they used to be able to do with keyboard shortcuts.
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LibreOffice: using a dash as bullet automatically
With OpenOffice, I could use a dash as a bullet. I started a new line with a dash, space, then some text, then enter. Magically, the dash would convert to a bullet list, indent, etc. When LibreOffice ...
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