Add Bullets in Word with the Keyboard

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Hello and welcome to VisiHow. Today I'm going to show you how to use Hotkey keyboard shortcuts to make bullet points in a Microsoft Word 2010 document. As you can see, I've written Italy as a title, and now I want to add several bullet points to express information about Italy. Bullet points are very useful because they allow you to display information in a concise, efficient manner and not have convoluted text where the information gets lost or there's a lot to read.

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   In order to do this, we're going to use a Hotkey Shortcut

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   If we press Ctrl, Shift, and L, it will add a bullet point.

   

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   Now we can write about some topics that we associate with Italy

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   Food, Climate, History, Men in tight Speedos. Now we have created a section about Italy, using bullet points.

   

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   When you press enter, it creates a new bullet point

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   If you don't want a bullet point, press enter again and it will erase the bullet point and take you back into normal text writing. If you press enter again it will move down a line and now you can make another heading like France. We can make the text bigger by using Ctrl and the right parenthesis. We can also hit Ctrl-B to make it bold and Ctrl-You to underline it. Now we can write France and press enter.

   

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   Now we want to use bullet points again by pressing Ctrl Shift and L

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   We can also go to the bullet points section and there are other bullet points that we can use.

   

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   Here we see Recently used bullets and Bullet library

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   These are purely aesthetic and don't change anything, but they give things a different perspective if you want to make something different. Now we can choose the bullet we would like to use.

   

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   Now we have a different style of bullet points and we can make our list

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   The other option is to use numbered bullet points

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   There is no Hotkey shortcut for numbered bullet points. To enter a numbered bullet point, you would click where the mouse is pointing.

   

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   To change the style, click the arrow next to the number bullet points option

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   Now we can choose the style of the bullet points such as a, b, c or roman numerals.

   

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   This has been a video on how to access Bullet points using Hotkey commands

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