Bullets

Bullets can be inserted in two different ways. Method I below is the simplest to use, and it allows you to select different kind of bullets and to automatically place a tab or one or two spaces after the bullet. Method II uses counters C11, C12, C13 or C14. These counters can be formated as a variety of different bullets and you have more options for automatically adding spaces or tabs before as well as after the bullet.

There are three lists of bullets. By default, the first list uses a dot bullet, the second list uses a box bullet and the third list uses an arrow. Each bullet is automatically followed by a tab. You can change the configuration of these lists by selecting a different bullets or by selecting different punctuation to follow the bullet (tab, one space, two spaces or nothing). When you change the configuration, the change will remain in effect until you change it again. When you use one of these lists to insert a bullet, the bullet itself is inserted in the document, so you see the bullet in Show Codes View as well as in Page Layout View. Changing the configuration of the bullets used in one of these lists will not affect bullets that have already been inserted.

To insert a bullet using Bullet List 1 (a dot bullet, unless you have changed it). place your cursor where you want the bullet to appear and press Ctrl+Shift+F1 or click the Bullet button on the Format toolbar.

To insert a bullet using Bullet List 2 (a box bullet, unless you have changed it), place your cursor where you want the bullet to appear and press Ctrl+Shift+F2.

To insert a bullet using Bullet List 3 (an arrow bullet, unless you have changed it), place your cursor where you want the bullet to appear and press Ctrl+Shift+F3.

To change the configuration of any of these lists, click Insert, Numbered/Bulleted Item. The Insert Numbered/Bulleted Item dialog will appear on your screen. Click the radio button next to Bullet 1, Bullet 2 or Bullet 3. Use the drop-down lists to select a different bullet or to select different punctuation after the bullet. The changes that you make will have no effect on bullets that have already been entered in your documents, but they will affect all future bullets that you enter in any document.

Numbered Items or counters can be formatted as bullets. This method has the advantage of allowing you to format bullets so that they are entered with tabs or spaces added before or after the bullet. You can even set the indentation so that subsequent lines of text are lined up with the first line of text. Once a numbered item is formatted as a bullet, it can be entered easily and quickly with one simple key combination. There are four lists that can be defined for numbering or lettered lists or for or bullets. If you are using numbered or lettered lists in the same document, you must choose which list to use for bullets. If you want to use two different kinds of bullets, two of the lists can be used, one for each kind of bullet. To define one of the numbered lists for bullets and insert the bullets:

2	Click Insert, Numbered/Bulleted Item. The Insert Numbered/Bulleted Item dialog will appear on your screen.

3	Choose the List you want to use for bullets by clicking on the radio button for List 1, List 2, List 3 or List 4. If you plan to use only bullets and no numbered lists in this document, choose List 1.

Select the number start position and then click OK. If you plan to use less than 4 distinct numbered lists and or bullet styles in this document, you should select Beginning of Document. By selecting different starting points, the same list can be used repeatedly in the same document with numbering or bullets beginning again and styles defined differently each time the the list starts again.

6	Next, the Number Format dialog will appear on your screen. Complete the information as described below and then click OK

•	Use the drop down lists to select Start With and End With. (Text Before and Text After are not generally used with bullets.)

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Press the Font Before button to make changes to the font of the counter. These changes will remain in effect for the text immediately following the counter unless you also change the following text by pressing the Font After button. For example, if you want the bullet to be larger, but you do not want the following text to be affected, then you should press the Font Before button and select a larger point size and then press the Font After button and select the smaller point size previously in effect.

•	Press the Indentation button or the Tabs button to make changes to the Indentation or the tabs for the counter and the following text.

8	To insert the next bullet in the same series, press Shift+Alt+F1 if you are using List 1. If you are using Lists 2, 3 or 4, press Shift+Alt+F2, Shift+Alt+F3, or Shift+Alt+F4. (Subsequent bullets can also be inserted by pressing Insert, Numbered Item, then clicking Insert)

If you selected Indentation for the bulleted list in step 6, you do not need to do so separately. However, you will need to return to regular indentation after the bulleted list. To format the indentation, see Formatting Numbered/Bulleted Lists.