Last time we looked at how to insert a bullet point into a Word document. In this week’s hint and tip we are taking it a step further. We’re looking at creating your own bullet point using the ‘Define New Bullet’ option. This option is found in the bullet points drop down menu. This is covered in our Basic Word training course.

Defining a new bullet

This option allows you to choose how your bullet will look. When you click on this option, a box appears with a number of options to choose from.

Symbol

The Symbol option allows you to pick a new bullet point from a whole list of symbols in Word. In this window you can choose the Font you want your symbol to be in (most of the common ones are available in the ‘Symbol’ font that is shown by default). Once you have the symbol you want, click OK and OK again. This will have now inserted the symbol you chose as a bullet point.

Picture

The Picture option allows you to insert a picture as the bullet point instead of a symbol; keep in mind that it will be small so if the image is detailed you won’t see it very clearly. Selecting this option brings up a window allowing you to choose where to obtain the image from. The most commonly used one is ‘From a file’ as this allows you to select an image that is saved on your computer. If you use this option, you just navigate your way to where the image is stored. Once there, select Insert and OK and it will then insert the picture as your bullet point.

Font

Finally, the Font option allows you to change the font features of your bullet point when you have done in your document e.g. the colour and size of it. This option is not used as much as the other two, it is often used for changing the colour of the bullet point that you have and so is not used as often at the other two options.

There you have it, you can now create new bullet points! We hope you have enjoyed learning about Word basics defining bullet points and that you can now create new bullet points in your Word documents.

If you liked this hint and tip, have you seen our previous one on how to insert bullet points?

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This week we are looking at bullet points in Word and how you can use them in your documents. This is covered in our Basic Word training course.

What are they?

Bullet points can be used for a number of reasons in a document, from creating a list of instructions to summarising information in an easier to read format.

You can insert bullet points before or after you have typed in your information for the bullet points, in this hint and tip we are going to show you how to do both.

The bullet point button is found on the Home Tab and there are 2 parts to this button. The main part just inserts a plain bullet point, or the last bullet point style you have chosen, and the second part is a drop down arrow that gives you more options for inserting a bullet point with different styles to choose from and then option to create your own bullet point (which we will look at next time).

Inserting bullet points before typing text

To insert a plain bullet point on a blank ‘line’ in your document, click on the main part of the bullet point button. This will insert a black plain bullet point and you can then start typing in the information that you want with bullet points. Once you have typed in a line of text you can get your next bullet point up by hitting the enter/return key on your keyboard. We will cover how to remove bullet points further down.

Inserting bullet points after typing text

You might already have your list of information typed in and want to insert bullet points to it, which can be done. Firstly, select the information that you want to have bullet points in, then once selected click on the bullet point button. It will now have inserted bullet points into your document. It will insert a bullet point at each time you went to a new row in your document.

Removing bullet points

There are a few ways to do this. Once you have finished your last bullet point line of text, hit enter so that you are now on a new line with a bullet point. From here you can then:

1. Click back on to the bullet point button and it will remove it
2. Hit enter again and it will remove the bullet point
3. Use the backspace key on your keyboard to get you back to ‘normal text’ in your document (you might have to hit it a few times until you are back to the side of the page in Word)

You can also remove more than one bullet point at once, just select all the text that has bullet points currently and then click on the bullet point button. This will have removed the bullet points and changed your text back to ‘normal’ text.

We hope you like this hint and tip on Word basics inserting bullet points and make sure to look out for the next one on defining a bullet point!

If you liked this hint and tip, why not take a look at our previous one on BODMAS?

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