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Bulleted Lists
PowerPoint provides several bulleted lists slides for you to choose from for your presentation. You can use these slides or create bulleted list slides of your own. |
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Bullets can be dots, check marks, arrows, squares and more.
Picture bullets - colorful bullets in various shapes - are also available. |
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Formatting a Bulleted List
You can format the look of bullets from the Format menu.
To Format a Bulleted List:
- Place your cursor in the section of the slide you want your bullet or bulleted list. Click on Format
 Bullets and Numbering.
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- A dialog box opens. Make sure the Bulleted tab is selected.
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- Choose the bullet style that you want from the examples that appear on the screen or click Picture and choose a style from the bullets that appear. (You can also choose size and color).
- Click OK.
Customizing a Bulleted List
If you don't like the traditional bullets or the picture bullets that PowerPoint offers, you can customize your own.
To Customize a Bulleted List:
- Place your cursor in the section of the slide you want your bullet or bulleted list. Click on FormatBullets and Numbering.
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- A dialog box appears. Make sure the Bulleted tab is selected.
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- Choose the bullet style that you want from the examples that appear on the screen or click Picture and choose a style from the bullets that appear. (You can also choose size and color).
- Click OK.
Customizing a Bulleted List
If you don't like the traditional bullets or the picture bullets that PowerPoint offers, you can customize your own.
To Customize a Bulleted List:
- Place your cursor in the section of the slide you want your bullet or bulleted list. Click on FormatBullets and Numbering.
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- A dialog box appears. Make sure the Bulleted tab is selected.
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- Click on Customize near the bottom right corner of the dialog box.
- A dialog box appears.
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- Choose a symbol from the list that appears. Note that you can change the font by clicking on font in the upper left corner of the dialog box.
- Click OK.
Formatting a Numbered List
PowerPoint also gives you different options for formatting a numbered list.
To Format a Numbered List:
- Place your cursor in the section of the slide you want your bullet or bulleted list. Click on FormatBullets and Numbering.
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| A dialog box opens. Make sure the Numbered tab is selected. |
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- Choose the number style that you want. (You can also choose size, color, and the number you wish to start from.
- Click OK.
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| Look Up! |
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- Open the presentation, My Hobbies, which you created earlier.
- Insert a new slide with title and text placeholders. This is the fourth slide in your presentation.
- Type a title for the slide. You may want this slide to be about the second hobby on your list from slide 2, My Hobbies Are....
- Format a different bullet style for the slide.
- Type a list of things related to the topic of the slide.
For example:
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| Save and close the document. |
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