Shooting
Bullets in Word
If you use bulleted lists
in Word, I'm sure you get tired of those generic black dots and would
like to use something snazzier. Well, Word gives you lots of
options.
Here are a few to get you
started.
Turn on the bullet button
on your toolbar. Type a word after the first bullet and hit your
Enter key. Repeat this until you have 5 bullets. Then
highlight all the text (the bullets will not highlight) and go to the
Format menu and choose Bullets and Numbering.
Be sure you are on the
Bulleted tab and you will see the generic black dots are the ones that
are selected. You can simply click on one of the other boxes to
choose a different one, or you can click on the Picture button which
will give you many different choices of ClipArt bullets in all sizes,
shapes, and colors.
Or, you can click on the
Customize button and click on the Bullet button in there where you will
see all of the characters available to you in the Symbol font. You
can choose any of one these by double clicking on it, or you can even
choose another font from the dropdown box and choose any one of the
characters available there. Try Wingdings or Webdings for lots of
fun choices.
After you double click on
the character of your choice, you will be back in the box where you
clicked on the Bullet button. This time click on the Font button
beside it and in here you can change the size of your selected character
and even make it bold or italicized for a different effect. You
can also choose a font color for your bullet and, if you really want to
jazz it up, you can select an underline style and underline the bullet
in a different color.
When it comes to Bullets,
MS Word doesn't just shoot blanks!
Hang in there!
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