Word allows you to easily create bulleted lists in your documents. As a default, Word uses a small dot as the bullet. You can change the bullet to any character you desire. You can change the bullets by following these steps:
Figure 1. The Define New Bullet dialog box.
Figure 2. The Symbol dialog box.
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2018-03-03 14:11:47
Lewis Eigen
The colored bullet that you show in your first 6 examples is very good looking. However, it is not on my machine. Is there a wau to download it?
2018-01-11 16:28:44
Changing the bullets was very interesting; but is there a way to change only certain bullets in a bulleted list? Thank you.
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