Bullets and Bullet Lists

By Jacci Howard Bear, About.com Guide

Bullets are those traditionally round symbols found in most fonts. Bullets don't have to be round. They can be squares, diamonds, triangles, arrows, check boxes, check marks, stars, and other shapes. Round or not, use bullets to:

• organize a list
• draw attention to information

Some symbol fonts are designed with nothing but bullets — in various shapes and sizes including squares, triangles, or check boxes — also called ballot boxes. Other symbol or dingbat fonts contain more elaborate bullets and mini-clip art images.

Bullet lists are especially useful in multimedia presentations (such as PowerPoint slides) to present nuggets of information without a lot of reading.

As discussed at About.com Presentation Software, one of the most common PowerPoiint slide types is The Bulleted List Slide but sometimes you might need to Create New Lines Without a Bullet.

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• Put bullets in front of items in a list
• Create the basic bullet
• Use the right bullets
• Put just the right space between bullets and list items
• Put the right space between items in a bullet list
• Use bullets to draw attention outside of lists

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