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Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated February 12, 2022)
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For design purposes, there may be a time when you want to place a bullet in the middle of a sentence or between two words. You cannot accomplish this by using the Bullets tool (Home tab of the ribbon, Paragraph group). Instead, you must work directly with the actual bullet character.
To insert a bullet, you can type it directly by holding down the Alt key and typing 0183 on the numeric keypad. If you prefer, you can follow these steps:
Figure 1. The Symbol dialog box.
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2022-02-12 12:32:22
Kiwerry
Thank you, Allen. An additional, widely useable shortcut on Windows devices is the hotkey " Windows + . ". It gives access to fairly comprehensive collections of emoticons👍, character-based emojis :-) and symbols Ω, see (see Figure 1 below) . The dialogue opens with the emoticon collection, but one of the other two collections can be selected in the header row. Within each collection, the bottom row allows access to groups of collection members, and if a group contains more members than can be displayed a scroll bar at the right hand edge can be used to explore the group.
In my experience, this useful shortcut works within most Windows programs, but purely text based editors (e.g. the VBA editor) can represent only the character based emojis correctly. My experience with this shortcut is limited to W10 and W11.
Figure 1. Symbol Selection Dialogue
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