Hey there.
We’re back.
We’re still in module 3 where we’re talking about character formatting.
We just got through talking about how to work with numbers.
I want to show you now how to work with bullets.
Here’s the list we were working in earlier where we had numbered the list but I want
to go ahead and change these all to bullets.
So I’m going to go ahead and select all of these and next to your Numbering button
is your Bullets button.
Normally the very first time you use the Bullet option you’re going to get these round black
circles like you see here.
If you want to change that there’s an arrow to the right of it where you can pick from
the recently used bullets or you can look through the Bullet Library.
Notice in the Bullet Library you’ve got None again.
So that’s how you would take the bullets off.
And these are the last few that were used in your computer.
If you really want to go and see where all the bullets are you’ve got some options
down at the bottom here.
Let’s go down to the Define New Bullet Option.
You have a couple of options as far as choosing bullets and you can actually choose them from
the Symbol or the Picture option that you see here.
I’m going to start with Symbol.
This is a list of all the symbols that you could use.
Notice use the scrollbar on the right to go look at all the symbols.
But also notice the different font lists.
You’ve got tons of them here.
And your actual bullets can come from any of these lists.
Most of the neat little pictures are going to be under the Webdings but again you could
pick from any of these.
So you can see all the neat little pictures you have here.
I’m going to scroll down and I’m going to find this kitty cat.
And I’m going to click on that and click OK.
And when I click OK out of it notice now I have kitty cats for my bullets.
I’m going to go back into the Bullets for a moment.
So you can work with the symbols.
You can also work with the Picture option.
Under the Picture option you have the ability, if you want, to find a file that’s already
on your computer and use that as your bullets or you can do a Bing image search.
So if I wanted to I could go out and say Pictures of dogs and I’m going to get a ton of different
pictures of dogs.
But if I find one I like that might be a good bullet I can use that.
Let’s say, for example, I use this one here and I choose Insert.
And now when I click OK that picture I just looked up on the internet is now my bullet.
I’m going to go back into the Bullets here and the next thing I want to mention is the
fact that when you’re using a symbol or a picture sometimes you can change the font.
So let’s say I change this back to some symbol.
I’ll go back to my Webdings.
And let’s say that Wingding so I’m going to go to Webdings.
It has neatest pictures.
This time I’ll just use this one here.
It looks like a boom box.
And I’ll click OK.
I want to change the font for this.
So I want to make it a little bit larger and I want to change the color.
Now when I click OK and click all the way out I have a new bullet and it’s a lot larger
now and also it’s blue.
Those are some of the quick things you can do with your bullets.
I did want to mention one more just quick, odd thing.
You might have seen something like this before.
I’m going to come down and say, “Our telephone number is”.
And you’ve probably seen people put a picture of a telephone right here.
They’re going to use the same list you’d look at with bullets except they’re going
to insert it as a symbol.
Here’s how you do that.
Under the Insert tab you’re going to notice all the way to the right it says Symbol.
And notice the first few are the ones that we just used.
I can go down to the More Symbols and notice this is the exact same list of fonts.
If I go to Webdings again where I am I can pick any of these same ones we’re already
familiar with and I can use that as my actual symbol.
So I know there’s sort of a telephone in here.
This one here.
I’m going to click Insert and notice now if I just move this out of the way I have
one instead of a list of bullets.
This is treated as a font.
So if I select it then I can change the color, I can change the size, any of that stuff.
Notice a couple of other things in here.
You can add this to you AutoCorrect and you can also create a shortcut key.
That’s all there is to working with bullets and in this case symbols as well.
We’ve got one more section in this particular module, Creating an Outline.
So I want to go over that with you because we’re going to use numbers and/or bullets
to do that as well.
So I’ll see you over in the section 8.