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Now to wrap things up here in this introductory chapter in our look at Pages, we'll look at simply inserting or working with a bulleted list in our document and this is a pretty elementary type of skill, but we use it over and over again and like a lot of the things you've been exposed to in this introductory chapter, it seems pretty elementary, especially if you just look at the title of the module, but you might have been exposed to tips and tricks that you did not necessarily know were there or at least seen them used in a way that will help make your life easier when you're generating a word processing document. So that's what we're doing here. We'll combine some things that we've learned in the first couple of modules here. One is first we'll just go ahead and hide the styles drawer that we've used for the last module or two and right next to this, by the way, there's a little button here in the formatting toolbar called choose a paragraph style. So I'm going to do that and just select some text here. I'm going to select all three of the paragraphs that I've generated; new text, more new text, still more new text and I'm going to quickly apply the body style. Notice there was a body bullet style as well and you can do that to quickly generate a list. But now I'm going to go back over to the right-hand side and from this part of the format bar I'm going to choose list style; bullet, Harvard, legal, numbered list and so on. So bullet makes a quick bulleted list. If I want to change my mind, Harvard creates a list that looks like this and if you're thinking that these lists kind of lend themselves very quickly to generating an outline for if you're preparing a legal document, something like that, section one of the contract and then paragraph one, section one of the contract and so on. The way that I do that, as you just saw me as I undo it with a command Z, I'm going to press return, it's going to create a second point in my list. But now, watch what happens if I press return and then I tab. Now it's 2.1 and that again is the legal bulleted list that is one of my four that I can grab very quickly. I'll undo that as well, undo that and if I change to the Harvard, you might say that indeed I've got an outline. Now, what's going to happen if I add a sub-heading here, if I press tab? Well, if you guessed that it would change to an A, you are exactly right, so sub-heading, something like that. If I change my mind and I want to move that back to the left and make it a Roman numeral, I hold down the Shift key and press tab and change that into a Roman numeral, into a heading rather than a sub-heading. So that's how you get started with the use of lists. If you want to change this, by the way, you can use the, you guessed it. I'm waiting and waiting; yes, it's the inspector. So I'm going to change this to a bulleted list here real quickly to show you what other options you have. Let's use the inspector and now we want to once again choose the text inspector and the thing that gives us more options as far as our bullets is the list tab or the list button in our text inspector. So there we are. We have text bullets. We can use image bullets, numbers, tiered numbers and so on. So all we have to do for text bullets, image bullets obviously we would choose our image or we can have several that are preselected so that's kind of cool. And then you'll be able to change your text indent, so if you want to separate that text a little more you can do so like that. The bullet index as well, scaling with the text so the bullets will change as the text changes as well. It'll be the same size. So lots of options obviously that you have for your bulleted list, one of them being image bullets, the other being text bullets and then being able to line them up, size them, change the color, the bullet indent, the text indent, so play around with those as you see fit. That's how you get started and now you have a pretty good introduction to Pages and a way to get started very quickly with generating some very cool documents.