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Keep the items short The items of a bulleted list must be short. Avoid bulleted items that are longer than two lines. If you need to have longer items, put them in the running text. Bulleted items should not repeat parts of the introductory sentence.

Insert a bulleted or numbered list On the View tab, click Normal. Click in the text box or placeholder where you want to add bulleted or numbered text. On the Home tab, in the Paragraph group, click Bullets or Numbering. , and begin typing your list. Press Return to create a new list item.

Place the cursor where you want the symbol to be inserted. Hold down the Alt key. While holding down the Alt key, type the 0, 1, 4 and 9 keys on the numeric keypad one after the other. Confirm that the bullet point was inserted into your document or application.

Turn lines of text into a bulleted list by selecting the text and then clicking Home> Paragraph> Bullets. Each line or paragraph becomes a bullet in the list. Tip: Press Enter to move text to its own line, or press Enter twice to end the bulleted list.

Choose a new bullet or numbering format Click a bullet or number in the list that you want to change.On the Home tab, under Paragraph, click the arrow next to Bullets or Numbering. Click the bullet or numbering list format that you want in the Bullet Library or the Numbering Library.

How to use bullet points Make sure all items in the list are related to each other. Use the same font and margin width in each bulleted point. Keep bullet points short, preferably no more than three lines long. Begin all items with the same part of speech (active verbs work well) and make sure they are in parallel form.

A bullet point is supposed to be a short summation of the key point that you want to make. It should not reveal all you know about the idea, or there is nothing left for you to say. For each idea you want to convey, consider what the key point is and put that as a bullet point.