Work with Text / Type a List
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Sometimes when you're typing text into a document, you want to type a list of items. This might be a Numbered or a Bulleted List. Typically you'll use a Bullet List when the order of items in the list is not important, such as a shopping list. You'll use a Numbered List when order is important, or when you want to be able to refer to an item in the list by quoting its number later on. For example, if you're going to provide a list of documents that are attached to a letter, if you number the documents then someone replying to that letter can refer to a document using its number, so it'll be clear what document they mean. You'll also use a Numbered List when creating step-by-step instructions where it's important that Step 1 is done before Step 2. Let's create a Bullet List. I'm going to start with a new line in my document and click the Bullets button on the Ribbon. Now you can see that I have my first Bullet point. I'm going to type. I'll press Enter and you'll see that I have now my second bullet and I'll press Enter again and finally press Enter. Now I don't need any more Bullet List items, so I need to stop my list. To stop the list all I need to do is to click on the Bullets icon on the Ribbon and that stops the list and removes that excess bullet. It's also possible to convert existing lines of text into a Bullet List. I'll select these lines of text and then click the Bullet button on the Ribbon. This makes my list a Bullet List. Now if I were to decide that I didn't want that list to be a Bullet List any longer, all I need to do is to select the text and select the Bullet button again. It's a toggle button. Click it once to turn Bullets on and click it again to turn Bullets off. Likewise, you can create a Numbered List. Here I'm on a brand new line in my document and I'm going to click the Numbering button. I'm given number 1 as the first item in the list so I'll type my first numerical point. I'll press Enter to get number 2 and Enter again to get number 3. When I press Enter finally I get number 4 which I don't want. To stop my list I'll do exactly the same as I did to stop a Bullet List and I'll click the Numbering button again. The excess number has now disappeared. I can change the formatting of a Bullet List or a Numbered List if I want to. I have my Bullet List selected here and you can see that there's a drop-down indicator to the right of the Bullets icon on the Ribbon. If I click that, you'll see that there are lots of different options for Bullets. There are Square Bullets and Arrowheads and Checkmarks. If I click one of these options, my Bullet List is going to change. I'll click this Arrowhead. Now this is the same for a Numbered List. I'll select my Numbered List, select the down pointing arrow here and you can see that I have other options for my Numbered List. I'm going to select this option. There's one more thing I want to show you before we finish working with Bullets and Numbered Lists. I'm going to make this Bullet List into a Numbered List. I'll select it and just click the Numbering button. Now my two Numbered Lists are formatted identically, but I want the second Numbered List to follow on from the first, so instead of reading 1-2-3, 1-2-3 I want it to read 1-2-3-4-5-6. So do this, I'm going to select the first number that I want to change. I'll right-click it and from the Shortcut Menu I'll choose Continue Numbering. Now my list is numbered 1-2-3-4-5-6. When you're working on a numerical list you'll find the Shortcut Menu that you get when you right-click a list item contains things that you can use to manage your list, like Restarting or Continuing the numbering, or setting your numbering to a preset value.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Microsoft Word 2010 |
| Author: | Helen Bradley |
| SKU: | 34149 |
| ISBN: | 1-936334-42-9 |
| Release Date: | 2010-08-05 |
| Duration: | 8.5 hrs / 119 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | Available on CD and Online University |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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