- [Instructor] In this video, we're going to format text
as a bulleted or a numbered list.
So I want to scroll down near the end of my document,
where I have this section on artificial intelligence.
I'm going to click at the end of this line,
hit the return key and start typing in my list.
And I'll pause here.
So far I'm just typing in normal text.
And each time I hit the return key, it starts a new line,
which is defined as a new paragraph,
but I want to format this list with bullets.
Now I could just click anywhere on one of these lines,
go to the home ribbon and then choose the option
here for the bulleted list.
And that looks great,
but it only applies that format to that one paragraph.
So let's undo that by clicking the undo button
in the quick access toolbar, and to really set up this list,
what you should do is select all of the items
on the list first, then go to the home ribbon,
and choose the bulleted list option.
And now everything that I had selected
is formatted as a list.
And one nice thing about this formatting,
if I place my cursor at the end of one of these lines
and then hit the return key,
the next line will keep the formatting
of the line that always on when I hit return.
So it's really easy to continue the list
with the list formatting.
I'll just add a few more items here.
Now, when we formatted this list,
we made it a bulleted list.
You could also make it a numbered list,
and we see that option here in the home ribbon.
And when you set up a list for the first time,
you do need to select everything,
but after the list has already been formatted as a list,
you can just place your cursor anywhere on the list
if you want to change the list formatting.
So I can click somewhere on the list,
go to the home ribbon
and click this button to just switch it to a numbered list.
But of course, if you were formatting it
as a list for the first time,
you would need to select the whole thing first.
Okay, so you can do bullets or numbering,
or you can go back to those buttons in the home ribbon
and you can click the arrow next to one of them
and you can see other options.
So if I want this numbered list
to actually be Roman numerals, I can select that.
Or maybe I want it to start with A, B and C,
I can choose that,
or I could go over to the menu for the bulleted list
and I can choose a bullet with a different look,
and that's fine as well.
Or later, if you decide to remove the list formatting,
you can click on one of these lines,
go to that menu and you can choose none.
But in this case, it really does only apply
to one line at a time, so let's undo that.
And really what you would probably want to do
is select the entire list,
then go to that menu and choose none,
and that would remove that list formatting.
But once again, I'm going to undo that
because I do want the bulleted list format here.
Now finally, you can have different levels of a bulleted
or a numbered list.
What I'm going to do is click at the end of this line
and hit the return key to start a new item,
but this time I'm going to hit the tab key,
which indents this line on the list.
And I'm going to add an item here,
so this item is a subset of the previous line.
And with my cursor at the end of this line,
I can press the return key to continue the list
at this level of indent, and I'll add a few more items.
Now you can change these levels,
you can just click at the beginning of one of these lines
and you can hit the tab key again to increase the indent,
or hold the Shift key and hit the tab key
to decrease the indent.
So from there, you can set up different levels to your list.
And then if you want,
you can change the formatting for those multilevel lists.
Just go to the home ribbon, open up this menu
which are the options for multi-level lists,
and you could choose a different formatting
for that multi-level list there.
So from there, it really shouldn't take you long
to get used to formatting text
as bulleted or numbered lists.