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Bullets (or bullet points) are small dots, squares, dashes or graphics that begin a short descriptive phrase.

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Nested bulleted list in Slack

Is there a way to do nested bulleted lists with the new Slack markdown / formatting tools? E.g. I tried this * something * nested something * something else but it doesn't render it as something nested something something else I couldn't…
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How can I link a numbered bullet point to a sentence that references that bullet point and changes whenever the bullet point does?

I have a list of procedures such as Do this Do that Do the same thing as done in step 2, but differently Do some more of this Wave that over there In this example I have one bullet point referenced in another bullet point. Step 2 is referenced in…
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Word shortcut to start bulleted list

I know there exists a keyboard shortcut CTRL+SHIFT+L to create a new bullet point, but this does not add the appropriate indentation. Is there a keyboard shortcut that exists or that I can define to emulate the behavior of clicking on the bulleted…
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Why is my bullet formatting reset after changing a single bullet in Microsoft Word?

I have a custom multilevel list style in Microsoft Word 2010 which uses a mix of bullets and numbers. Whenever I try to change the bullet for single level, it ends up changing list items from every level to use the same bullet. This issue only…
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Preserve indentations of nested bullet list when copying and pasting to plain text from Word

If I have a nested bulleted list in Word, such as: When I paste it into Notepad or any other plain text document, the bullets lose their indents: How can I make the plain text version automatically keep the original spacing / indentations so that…
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Making numeric bullets indent properly in Word

When I type "1." or "10." in Word, it auto generates bullet properly as follows: But when I change its value to three digits it gets extra indent which definitely looks bad : I have to manually reindent it. This is big issue when say I have list…
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Powerpoint 2010: Hotkey - Indent Nested List

I am using the Microsoft Office 2010 version of Powerpoint. How do I shift the indentation of a nested list to the left or to the right, while typing?
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Insert Bullet Points in Excel

Is it possible to create a list within in a Cell using bullet points ? I currently use ALT + Enter for a line break, but it would look better if I could too add bullet points.
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How do I prevent Microsoft Word from pasting a picture as a bullet?

I'm trying to make a printable list of keyboard shortcuts using images to take the place of the Win key, Ctrl key, etc. The problem is, every time I paste one of these images at the start of a line, it converts my image to a bullet (of the image)…
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LibreOffice: using a dash as bullet automatically

With OpenOffice, I could use a dash as a bullet. I started a new line with a dash, space, then some text, then enter. Magically, the dash would convert to a bullet list, indent, etc. When LibreOffice this doesn't work anymore. Old documents which…
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Pasting unformatted text into a bulleted list changes the indentation

A bug that I have long lived with in Word, but that I'm growing increasingly frustrated with, is the following behaviour: copy some unformatted text, e.g. from Notepad put cursor in a new line of a bulleted list, in a Word document Paste =>…
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Windows 7, PowerPoint 2003

I'm including a custom-made bullet point in a PowerPoint 2003 presentation. Will a user on another machine be able to see it and use it?
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How can I paste newline-separated text into a bulleted list without creating new bullets?

I have a bulleted list in an Outlook 2010 email and I am trying to paste a newline-separated list of text items into one of the bullets. When I do this, it's bulleting each line and I don't want it to do that. What I want it to do is treat each…
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How do I turn off bullet list formatting all of the lines to bullet lists in Word 2013?

I having the issue of bullet listing all of the lines when I just wanted to make 1 line be bullet listed. Here is a GIF showing what happens when I want to make "3 units" bullet-listed. How do I turn this off? I don't want press CTRL + Z every time…
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How can I use the contextual menu key to insert a bullet or number list?

I moved from using Word 2003 to 2013 with a brief spell using 2007 and 2010. The more Word becomes intuitive, the less it enables users to do what they used to be able to do with keyboard shortcuts. I miss my old (yet hyper efficient) 2003…
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