Microsoft office Word

Using Bullets and Numbered Lists Bullets and numbered lists provide an excellent way to segregate, list, and organize information for a reader. You can control the appearance, or  format , of a bulleted or numbered list. The bullet or numbering format you use last becomes the default format; that is, the next time you create a bulleted or numbered list, Word uses the same format you used the last time you created a bulleted or numbered list. As you'll learn in this section, you can easily change the default bullet or numbering format by choosing one of seven default bullet formats or one of seven default numbering formats. You can modify any of these to create your own formats.  The bullet and numbering features covered here are designed for simple lists. If you need to build complex automated multilevel numbering schemes based on your outline headings,  see  "Using Word's Automatic Outline Numbering, Starting and Stopping a Bulleted List Using the Formatting toolbar, you

  Formatting Paragraphs Formatting a paragraph usually entails changing its shape. You may be squeezing it in with indents or stretching it out with additional line spacing. Other kinds of formatting change a paragraph’s very nature, like adding a border or making it part of a numbered or bulleted list. The Paragraph formatting group (Home → Paragraph) is right next door to the Font group ( Figure 4-6 ). You don’t need to  select  text to format a paragraph; just make sure the insertion point is in the paragraph you want to format. However, if you want to format several paragraphs at once, select them all before you apply a command. Figure 4-6. Paragraph formatting commands are in the Home → Paragraph group. Left to right, from the top, you find buttons to add bullets and numbers, apply indents, sort paragraphs, show the paragraph mark, align paragraphs, adjust line spacing, change the background color, and add borders. Aligning Text It’s easy to apply alignment to text. With y