Bullets and Numbering

Quick reference

• 00:05 Learning to manage bullets and numbering can be a little tricky unless you know
• 00:08 the quick way and how to identify it all.
• 00:11 Before we even begin, I want you to make sure you have your ruler on your screen
• 00:15 right above your document.
• 00:17 If you don't see this ruler right up here, I need you to turn it on simply by
• 00:21 clicking the view ribbon, and over here you will see the ruler check mark,
• 00:25 make sure to put a check mark in your ruler box.
• 00:29 When that's done you'll see your ruler, go ahead and click on the home ribbon,
• 00:32 because it's in the home ribbon, paragraph group, that we see the bullets button, and
• 00:36 then the numbering button.
• 00:38 Now when your working with bullets and numbering,
• 00:40 it's important that you do select the entire list that you're working with.
• 00:43 If we just select one word,
• 00:46 then when we click bullets, then we only get a bullet on one word.
• 00:51 And then I simply click it again to turn that off.
• 00:53 When we select the entire list, and
• 00:56 then we hit bullets, then the entire list gets bullets.
• 01:00 And not just one of them.
• 01:02 So I'm gonna go ahead and turn that off as well.
• 01:03 Now you might wonder the on, off button here, honestly that's the trick.
• 01:10 They're simply on or they're off, just like that.
• 01:12 And if I have them listed and I want to go back with my numbers,
• 01:15 I simply turn them on and I turn them off, just like that.
• 01:19 And you know they're on because the button is highlighted.
• 01:22 And you know they're off because the buttons are not highlighted.
• 01:24 And it's obvious that there are numbers on the list or
• 01:26 there are not numbers on the list.
• 01:28 So when you treat these bullets and
• 01:31 numbering buttons like on,off switches it's that easy.
• 01:35 All right, now, you may wonder, why did I have you put the ruler on your screen.
• 01:38 Well, if you take a look, when I turn my bullets on, take a look at your ruler.
• 01:42 This is your indent, and the next video's gonna talk more about indenting.
• 01:46 With bullet I do want you to notice this little,
• 01:48 tiny square at the bottom of this indent.
• 01:51 You can click and drag that little square, and
• 01:54 you can move the entire set to the left, or the entire set to the right,
• 01:58 simply by clicking that little, tiny square on the ruler.
• 02:02 Now I can spread them apart simply by clicking the top.
• 02:06 Operators, this first one indent.
• 02:08 I can spread the top one here.
• 02:09 Just the bullets are moving, not the entire list of words.
• 02:12 So that's how you shrink the distance between your bullet and
• 02:16 your word, or expand the distance.
• 02:18 And again, the little square is how you move them around on the page.
• 02:22 It is that simple.
• 02:23 And the same thing applies if I were to hit the numbering button.
• 02:25 The same thing applies.
• 02:27 I can move them around or
• 02:29 I can spread the distance between the number and the word itself.
• 02:33 It's that easy.
• 02:34 Now there is one thing I want to show you about bullets numbering.
• 02:37 I'll go ahead and turn the bullets back on.
• 02:38 There happens to be a drop down arrow besides it.
• 02:41 Click the drop down arrow and look at this.
• 02:43 You have a ton of different little bullets that you can use.
• 02:48 And it's simply a matter of clicking them.
• 02:50 If you want to change that, you can even hit define new bullet and
• 02:55 you can choose symbol or picture or font.
• 02:58 A picture you could literally click the picture button and
• 03:02 you can actually put someone's photo as your bullet.
• 03:06 But if I choose symbol, then I've got all these symbols I can choose from.
• 03:10 It's actually quite fun to go in and choose a different bullet.
• 03:14 I'm going to hit cancel on those.
• 03:16 Now numbering shows you the different numbering styles.
• 03:19 A number with dots, a number with paragraph,
• 03:22 a number that are Roman numerals, a number with abc formats.
• 03:27 It's actually quite delightful all the different things and
• 03:30 options you have when you use bullets and numbering.
• 03:33 And the last thing I want to show you is you can actually
• 03:37 remove numbering from one of these.
• 03:40 Numbers. So, I'm sorry.
• 03:42 I have to say this correctly.
• 03:43 If I click on the third one that says tomatoes and I just turn off numbering for
• 03:47 that line, there you go.
• 03:49 And look at, the rest of them renumbered themselves.
• 03:52 So I'm gonna go ahead and put that numbering back on.
• 03:55 And just turn it back on, and it automatically renumbers properly.
• 03:59 Now if I highlight that whole list and turn it, oops.
• 04:03 Did too much.
• 04:04 Highlight that list, and
• 04:05 turn it to bullets, I could actually turn the bullets off on just one of them.
• 04:09 Click that, and I move my mouse up to the bullet button.
• 04:12 Simply turn it off and the bullet goes away.
• 04:15 It's that simple.
• 04:16 Bullets and numbering is a wonderful way to control how lists look and
• 04:20 appear and to keep an orderly fashion to your lists.
• 04:24 All right, go ahead and practice with that, and I think you're really gonna like
• 04:27 it, especially now that you know there's simply on,off switches on the buttons.

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