Bullets and Numbering

In Microsoft Word, you can easily create bulleted or numbered lists of items. Several bulleting and numbering styles are available...

Customizing Word so Bulleting can be applied to a paragraph using the keyboard.

How to change the font characteristics in lists without changing the text characteristics.

Customizing Word so Numbering can be applied to a paragraph using the keyboard.

Sometimes an automatic number isn't the only thing you need at the start of a paragraph. For instance, this tip explains three different methods of how you can put a standard underline space before the numbers in a numbered list. This can come in handy if you need to include the underlines as an "answer area" for each question.

Word's ability for customization extends to a vast amount of bullet options. M

Word allows you to define prefixes for page numbers. These are often used for chapter or section numbers in a large document. Getting these prefixes to appear in all the places you want them can, at times, be tricky. This tip provides a step-by-step way to make sure they are included.

Word's built-in numbering capabilities are, in the words of many experts, not very "robust." This means that your numbering can produce undesired results and even look entirely different on other people's systems. This tip explains why this happens and provides some ideas of how you can address the problem.

Word let's the user easily decide how numbered lists should look with this tip.

If you know the secret, you can use actual words as "bullets" in a bulleted list. The built-in bulleted lists in Word aren't the way to achieve what you want to do, and this tip explains why. It also provides a macro that you can use to apply the formatting you want to the list.