
The huge advantage of setting up your bullets in the way described here is that it puts you in charge, not Word! It is stable and reliable. If you want to change the look of the bullets or use multiple-levels of bullets, it will take about 3 minutes to get control of bullets. It will take you about 10 seconds to get one level of bullets working well. The key is to use Word's built-in List Bullet Styles.
SETTING INDENTS IN WORD 2011 HOW TO
This page describes how to control bullets in Word. You constantly seem to be re-setting the indents, or re-applying the bullets, or the bullets change size. Managing bullets in anything but the simplest of Microsoft Word documents can easily drive you crazy. The styles will manage the bullets and the indents. Modify the bullets and indenting by modifying the numbering settings of the List Bullet styles.Modify the List Bullet styles so you can have the font, paragraph and other formatting to suit your needs.
Apply List Bullet styles to paragraphs you want bulleted. It looks inviting, but it's not not what you need. Don't use Format > Bullets and Numbering. When you print the document, all headings are automatically expanded.Quick reference to controlling bullets in Word Note that you can only collapse and expand parts of your document when you’re viewing it on your computer. NOTE: This change only applies to the current heading and not all headings at the same level, unless you modify the heading style to include this change. If you don’t have the cursor in a heading, the “Collapsed by default” is grayed out and cannot be selected. On the “Indents and Spacing” tab of the “Paragraph” dialog box, select the “Collapsed by default” check box to the right of the “Outline level” drop-down list so there is a check mark in the box. Place the cursor in a heading formatted with the heading level you want to collapse (such as Heading 1) and click the “Paragraph Settings” dialog box button in the “Paragraph” section of the “Home” tab. To do this, make sure the “Home” tab is active on the ribbon. You can also set up Word to automatically collapse certain heading levels by default. Then, select “Collapse All Headings” from the submenu to collapse all the headings in your document, or “Expand All Headings” to expand all the headings again. To do this, right-click on any heading and move your mouse over “Expand/Collapse” on the popup menu. Word provides a quick way to collapse or expand all headings at once. When we collapsed “Subheading A,” which is a Heading 2, it collapses the content up to “Section 2” because that heading level is greater than “Subheading A.” However, when we collapsed “Section 1,” “Subheading A” and the content below it was collapsed as well because it is a lesser heading level than “Section 1.” Notice in the image below that all the content below “Section 1” is collapsed up to “Section 2” because “Section 2” is the at same heading level (Heading 1) as “Section 1.” NOTE: When you collapse a heading, only the content up to the next heading of equal or lesser value is collapsed. To view the content again, simply click the arrow to the left of the heading again. The content below the heading collapses and only the heading displays. When you click on the arrow, the text below the heading is hidden. When you move the mouse over the space to the left of a heading, a right arrow displays. To do this, you must use the Heading styles in Word to format the headings in your document.