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Step 1 - What are Bullets ?

The majority of the text displayed in a presentation is entered using one of the defined text placeholders.

By default these text placeholders will display your text with a bullet point at the front.

The purpose of the bullets points is to create a list of items (i.e. points you want to mention).

Each bullet point is considered to be a separate paragraph.

Step 2 - Formatting Bullets

You can change the formatting of the bullets to make them more readable and to emphasis particular items.

This can either be done manually to individual text boxes and lines or done using the Slide Master.

Changing the slide master is a quick way to changing all the text boxes on all the slides in a presentation.

It is also possible to remove the bullets altogether by using the bullets button on the Formatting toolbar.

 Bullets - This button is a toggle. Press it once to add bullets and then press it again to remove the bullets.

You can change the formatting of your bullets by selecting (Format > Bullets and Numbering)(Bullets tab).

Seven bullet characters are displayed by default but you are not restricted to just these. Press the Customise bullet to select a different bullet character.

Size - This is a percentage of the size of the text. For more details refer to the ?? Page.

Color - This lets you change the colour of the bullet point. See below.

Picture - Displays the ?? Dialog box.

Customise - Displays the Symbol dialog box allowing you to change the bullet character. For more details refer to the ?? Page.

Step 3 - Changing the Bullet Colour

The eight colours that are displayed on the drop-down are the colours from the Colour Scheme

You can select a different colour by choosing "More Colours" to display the familiar "Colors" dialog box.

Step 4 - Things to Remember

You can always use the "Reset" button at the bottom on the (Format > Bullets and Numbering) dialog box to reset any of the default bullets if they have been customised.

Bullets should be short and to the point.

If you want to change the bullet character for every text box in a presentation then you should change the Slide Master.