Bullets and numbering are used in a PowerPoint presentation to emphasize important points on a slide. A design template includes bullets for up to five outline levels, and these outline levels determine the shape, size, color, and indentation of the bullet character. You can modify the bullets for an entire presentation by changing the bullet character, color, or size on the slide master, or you can modify bullets on an individual slide.
In this activity, you will change the bullet character, the color of the bullet, and the bullet size for the entire presentation by modifying the Slide Master.
In this activity, you will use the Slide Master View to apply a picture bullet to the second level bullet.
Occasionally you may need to remove the bullet character from a line or paragraph of text. For example, your presentation may include a slide that contains a quote that you would like to display as a paragraph without a bullet. In this instance, the bullet character can be turned off. The Bullets button on the Formatting toolbar is a toggle button. Recall that a toggle button is like a light switch. You can click the button once to turn it on, and then you can click it again to turn it off. In this activity, you will turn off the bullet character in the last slide and then adjust the alignment for the text in the placeholder.
Slide text commonly contains bulleted items, but you can also create numbered items by applying numbers, roman numerals, uppercase, or lowercase alphabetic characters. When you move, delete, or add items to a numbered list, PowerPoint automatically reorders the numbers in the list.
NoteChanging the Start Number
You can start a numbered list with any number by changing the value in the Start at box in the lower right corner of the Bullets and Numbering dialog box.