Click the Define New Bullet command on the menu. There are seven bullet styles but you can define more ģ. Choose a new bullet from the Bullet Library. In the Paragraph group, click the arrow next to the Bullets button Ģ.
In this exercise, you will customize a bulleted and numbered list.ġ. You can customize numbered lists and choose different number styles and fonts like in a bulleted list. In a bulleted list, instead of using regular bullets you can select a different character, a picture bullet, or change indents. You can create space between the list items as you do on paragraphs spacing. Or press Enter twice at the end of the list. Click on the Numbering or Bullets button in the Paragraph group. Click on the Numbering or Bullets button in Paragraph group.ģ. Place the insertion point where you want to create the list.Ģ. In this exercise, you will create a list from scratch.ġ. For instance, a new paragraph at the end of the list gets the next consecutive number. When you add or remove paragraphs or items, the Numbered list renumbers automatically. Use Bullets when the ordering doesn’t matter (i.e. Use Numbers when the ordering of the paragraphs and items is important (i.e. Special characters, symbols, and pictures Keeps all lines of a paragraph on the same page.īulleted and Numbered lists make your document more readable and enable you to point out important parts of a document. Keeps the paragraph and the following paragraph on the same page. Or the first line of a paragraph from being printed at the bottom of a page (orphan). Prevents the last line of a paragraph from being printed at the top of a page (widow) Widow/Orphan Control, Keep Lines Together etc. The Line and Page Breaks in the Paragraph dialog box. There are other useful paragraph rules that you can apply by clicking In the Spacing section, click the up arrow until you reach 18 pt. In the Paragraph group, click the Paragraph dialog box button Or on the Page Layout tab, use the Paragraph group.ģ. Select the first four paragraphs in your document.Ģ. In this exercise, you will change the amount of spacing between paragraphs.ġ. In the Line Spacing box, click the arrow and select 1.5 lines.ĥ. Or on the Line Spacing menu, click the Line Spacing Options command.Ĥ. Click the Line Spacing button in the Paragraph group.
In this exercise, you will change the amount of spacing between lines in a paragraph.Ģ. You can change the amount of spacing between lines in a paragraph or between paragraphs by using the Spacing section in the Paragraph dialog box. Under the Indentation, choose the First Line option in the Special box. and press the Tab key Or click the Paragraph dialog box button Click in the first line of the paragraph. If you only want to indent the first line of the paragraphģ. In the Paragraph group, click the Increase Indent button. Click in the paragraph starting with the text “I am very concerned”.Ģ. This post is excerpted with permission from the following exercise you will indent a paragraph in your document.ġ. Click Display at the left side of the dialog box. In Word 2010 display the File tab of the ribbon and then click Options.)Ģ. (In Word 2007 click the Office button and then click Word Options. You can display these special characters, which Word refers to as nonprinting characters, by following these steps:ġ. For instance, Word uses special characters to indicate the end of a line or the end of a paragraph. In addition, there are several special characters that Word uses for housekeeping purposes. There are several different characters, such as a space and tab, which Word does not normally display on the screen. By Allen Wyatt for Displaying Nonprinting Characters in Word