
10 Minute Guide to Word for Windows 95


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Creating Numbered and Bulleted Lists
In this lesson you'll learn how to create numbered and bulleted lists in your
document.
Why Use Numbered and Bulleted Lists?
Numbered and bulleted lists are useful formatting tools for setting off lists
of information in a document; you've seen plenty of both in this book! Word for Windows
automatically creates these elements. Use bulleted lists for items that consist of
related information, but are in no particular order. Use numbered lists for items
with a specific order. Figure 22.1 shows examples of numbered and bulleted lists.
When creating a list, each paragraph is considered a separate list item and receives
its own number or bullet.
Figure 22.1
Word automatically creates numbered and bulleted lists such as these.
Creating a Numbered or Bulleted List
To create a numbered or bulleted list from existing text, follow these steps:
- 1. Select the paragraphs that you want in
the list.
- 2. Select Format Bullets
and Numbering to display the Bullets and Numbering dialog box.
- 3. Depending on the type of list you want,
click the Bulleted tab or the Numbered
tab.
Figure 22.2 shows the Numbered style options, and Figure 22.3 shows the Bulleted
style options.
- 4. Click the bulleting or numbering option
that you want.
- 5. Select OK.
Figure 22.2
List numbering style options displayed in the Bullets and Numbering dialog box.
Figure 22.3
List bulleting style options displayed in the Bullets and Numbering dialog box.
To create a numbered or bulleted list as you type:
- 1. Move the insertion point to the location
for the list. Press Enter, if necessary, to start a
new paragraph.
- 2. Select Format Bullets
and Numbering to display the Bullets and Numbering dialog box.
- 3. Depending on the type of list you want,
click the Bulleted tab or the Numbered
tab.
- 4. Click the bulleting or numbering style
that you want.
- 5. Select OK.
- 6. Type in the list elements, pressing Enter at the end of each paragraph. Each paragraph will be
automatically numbered or bulleted as it is added.
- 7. At the end of the last paragraph, press
Enter. Word will insert an extra, empty list item that
will be removed in the next step.
- 8. Select Format Bullets
and Numbering to display the Bullets and Numbering dialog box, then select
Remove.
Timesaver Tip: Quick Lists Create a numbered
or bulleted list quickly--in the default style--by clicking the Numbered List or
Bulleted List button on the Toolbar before typing, or after selecting the list text.
Using Multilevel Lists
A multilevel list contains two or more levels of bullets or numbering within a
single list. For example, a numbered list could contain a bulleted list under each
numbered item, or each level could be numbered separately, as in an outline. Here's
how to create a multilevel list:
- 1. Select Bullets and
Numbering from the Format menu to display the Bullets and Numbering dialog
box.
- 2. Click the Multilevel
tab to display the multilevel options, as shown in Figure 22.4.
- 3. Click the list style you want, then click
OK.
- 4. Start typing the list, pressing Enter after each item.
- 5. After pressing Enter,
press Tab to demote the new item one level, or Shift+Tab to promote it one level. Otherwise, the new item
will be at the same level as the previous item.
- 6. After typing the last item, press Enter then click the Numbering
button on the standard toolbar to end the list.
Figure 22.4
Use the Multilevel tab in the Bullets and Numbering dialog box to create a multilevel
list.
To change the style of an existing multilevel list, or to convert an existing list
to a multilevel list:
- 1. Select all the paragraphs to be in the
new list.
- 2. Select Format Bullets
and Numbering, then click the Multilevel tab.
- 3. Click the desired list style, then click OK.
- 4. Move the insertion point to each item
whose level you want to change.
- 5. Click the Decrease
Indent and Increase Indent buttons on the standard
toolbar to change the item's level.
Undoing a Numbered or Bulleted List
Follow these steps to remove bullets or numbers from a list:
- 1. Select the paragraphs that you want the
bullets or numbering removed. This can be the entire list or just part of it.
- 2. Select Format Bullets
and Numbering to display the Bullets and Numbering dialog box.
- 3. Select Remove.
Adding Items to Numbered and Bulleted Lists
You can add new items to a numbered or bulleted list as follows:
- 1. Move the insertion point to the location
in the list where you want the new item.
- 2. Press Enter
to start a new paragraph. Word automatically inserts a new bullet or number, and
renumbers the list items as needed.
- 3. Type in the new text.
- 4. If it's a multilevel list, click the Decrease Indent and Increase Indent
buttons on the standard toolbar to change the item's level, if desired.
- 5. Repeat as many times as needed.
This lesson showed you how to create numbered and bulleted lists. The next lesson
shows you how to arrange text in columns.


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