Bullets are the easy way to write your opinion point by point. There are many different ways to insert bullets on your Windows and Mac documents. In this article, let us explore all possible ways to insert bullets in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and also on Pages, Keynote and Numbers.
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If the keyboard shortcuts do not work, you may need to first set automatic numbering or bullets. To start a bulleted list: Press the. asterisk button(Shift + 8) where you would like to begin your list. Delete the word before the insertion point. Delete the word after the insertion point. Option-Forward Delete (not available on all keyboards) Delete the text between the insertion point and the next paragraph break. Make the font size bigger. Command-Plus Sign (+) Make the font size smaller. Command-Minus Sign (-). Say 'Make That Bullet Style' or 'Make That Numbered'. Dictate your points, saying 'New Line' as needed to start a new point. Once your list is complete, end it by saying 'Make That Not Bullet Style' or 'Make That Not Numbered'. In Microsoft Word you can press the TAB key to move bullets to the right. Then you can press TAB again followed by BACKSPACE to move the bullet back again (to the left). I can't seem to move the bullet back to left in Pages. It just deletes the bullet so i have to go back through the Inspector to insert a new bullet. This is very time consuming when trying to take notes in class. I know I can hit menu at the top in Word and the program will insert and indent. But that’s not always acceptable. I want control over my bullet points and now I have it. So for those of you Mac people who have had to, or may have wanted to, switch to a PC, here are a few of my new favorites: Alt+0149: Creates a bullet point within text; Ctrl.
You can use different styles of bullets for different purposes:
Download Bullet Points For Word
As you can see, above bullet points are useful to put our content in a simple way.
Inserting Bullets in Windows Documents
Follow one of the below instructions to insert bullets in Windows based documents.
#1 – Insert from Paragraph GroupMac Commands List
The easy and common way is to insert a bullet from the “Home” menu under “Paragraph” group. You can choose unordered, numbered or multilevel bullet list.
If you don’t like the existing bullet options, then click on the small arrow in the bullets / numbering / multilevel list. Choose “Define New….” Option. You can choose symbol, picture or font as your bullet.
Note: Use tab to create threaded bullets with indentation. Word will create a new bullet symbol for each indent to show it different.
#2 – AutoFormat Options
Word and PowerPoint documents has an AutoCorrect option to insert bullets automatically. For example, type 1 then . and press space to create a numbered bulleted list. Similar to numbered list, you can also use other symbols like hyphen or letters to insert bullets. For example, type hyphen and press spacebar to create a bullets with hyphen. You will see the AutoCorrect options when you type like this.
Choose “Control AutoFormat Options” to change the settings, if you don’t want Word, Outlook or PowerPoint to create bullets automatically.
#3 – Alt Code Keyboard Shortcuts
The above two methods are the correct way to insert bullets. Because it will create bullets for each new line automatically. However, if you want to manually create bullets for few lines then you can use alt code shortcuts for this purpose. Below are some of the bullets shortcuts which you can use for typing bullets.
List Of Commands For Mac
#4 – Insert Bullets on Microsoft Excel Worksheet
Bullets are meant for text documents and not for number processing software like Excel. However, if you want to add bullets in the Excel worksheet cell, the simple option is to type on Word and copy the content.
Keyboard Shortcut Bullet Point Mac
Inserting Bullets in Mac Documents#1 – Insert from Menu
On Mac documents with Pages or Keynote, you can insert bullets from the formatting sidebar. Select text or image bullet and choose the type to insert.
#2 – Assigning Keyboard Shortcuts for Bullets in Pages
When you choose the bullet type, click on the small arrow at the end. Choose “Shortcut” option and select the function key for the bullet.
After setup your shortcut, press Fn + F1 to F8 key to insert the corresponding bullet symbol.
#3 – Using Hyphens
Similar to Windows documents, you can also type hyphen to insert bullets on Pages and Keynote. However, the difference in Mac is that you need to type the content and press enter key to create a bulleted list.
#4 – Option or Alt Code Shortcuts
Use alt or option code shortcuts to insert bullet symbols in Mac. Hold option key and type the hex code in the above table to produce bullet symbols. In order to use this, you should have enabled Unicode Hex Input method as your keyboard input. For example, Option + 25CF will produce black circle bullet like ●.
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