Bullets (or bullet points) are small dots, squares, dashes or graphics that begin a short descriptive phrase.
Questions tagged [bullets]
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Nested bulleted list in Slack
Is there a way to do nested bulleted lists with the new Slack markdown / formatting tools?
E.g. I tried this
* something
* nested something
* something else
but it doesn't render it as
something
nested something
something else
I couldn't…
radoh
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How can I link a numbered bullet point to a sentence that references that bullet point and changes whenever the bullet point does?
I have a list of procedures such as
Do this
Do that
Do the same thing as done in step 2, but differently
Do some more of this
Wave that over there
In this example I have one bullet point referenced in another bullet point. Step 2 is referenced in…
efox29
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Word shortcut to start bulleted list
I know there exists a keyboard shortcut CTRL+SHIFT+L to create a new bullet point, but this does not add the appropriate indentation. Is there a keyboard shortcut that exists or that I can define to emulate the behavior of clicking on the bulleted…
intcreator
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Preserve indentations of nested bullet list when copying and pasting to plain text from Word
If I have a nested bulleted list in Word, such as:
When I paste it into Notepad or any other plain text document, the bullets lose their indents:
How can I make the plain text version automatically keep the original spacing / indentations so that…
Ryan
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Why is my bullet formatting reset after changing a single bullet in Microsoft Word?
I have a custom multilevel list style in Microsoft Word 2010 which uses a mix of bullets and numbers.
Whenever I try to change the bullet for single level, it ends up changing list items from every level to use the same bullet.
This issue only…
Stevoisiak
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Making numeric bullets indent properly in Word
When I type "1." or "10." in Word, it auto generates bullet properly as follows:
But when I change its value to three digits it gets extra indent which definitely looks bad :
I have to manually reindent it. This is big issue when say I have list…
RajS
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Powerpoint 2010: Hotkey - Indent Nested List
I am using the Microsoft Office 2010 version of Powerpoint.
How do I shift the indentation of a nested list to the left or to the right, while typing?
kando
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How to reduce the vertical whitespace between contiguous bullet points in MS PowerPoint
Consider, as an example, the vertical whitespace between the first and second list element, i.e. their associated texts.
It'd like to reduce this whitespace.
Andreas L.
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Insert Bullet Points in Excel
Is it possible to create a list within in a Cell using bullet points ?
I currently use ALT + Enter for a line break, but it would look better if I could too add bullet points.
PeterH
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How do I prevent Microsoft Word from pasting a picture as a bullet?
I'm trying to make a printable list of keyboard shortcuts using images to take the place of the Win key, Ctrl key, etc. The problem is, every time I paste one of these images at the start of a line, it converts my image to a bullet (of the image)…
techturtle
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How can I paste newline-separated text into a bulleted list without creating new bullets?
I have a bulleted list in an Outlook 2010 email and I am trying to paste a newline-separated list of text items into one of the bullets. When I do this, it's bulleting each line and I don't want it to do that. What I want it to do is treat each…
oscilatingcretin
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LibreOffice: using a dash as bullet automatically
With OpenOffice, I could use a dash as a bullet. I started a new line with a dash, space, then some text, then enter. Magically, the dash would convert to a bullet list, indent, etc. When LibreOffice this doesn't work anymore. Old documents which…
SPRBRN
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How to create a horizontal list in bullet points MS Word?
I am using Office 365, MS Word. I need to create a bullet points list horizontally. But in all the places where I searched, it gave me the option of adding a table with one row and including the content in each column. This is a hectic process as I…
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Create multi-character text bullet as part of MS Word style definition
I'm writing a long series of dialogs, and I'd like paragraph styles to include the character's name as a bullet, as in styles Mary and Peter below:
Mary: That's an absurd idea!
Peter: Well, at least it's an idea.
By defining Mary as the style…
David Knapp
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Pasting unformatted text into a bulleted list changes the indentation
A bug that I have long lived with in Word, but that I'm growing increasingly frustrated with, is the following behaviour:
copy some unformatted text, e.g. from Notepad
put cursor in a new line of a bulleted list, in a Word document
Paste
=>…
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