Create a bulleted or numbered list in Microsoft Word

In the previous post, we saw ‘How to Insert & Remove Hyperlinks in Microsoft Word?’, now we will learn about How to Create a bulleted or numbered list in Microsoft Word?

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1 Where to Find this option?

2 Shortcut Key to Insert Bullets

3 Shortcut Key to Insert Numbering

4 Understand With – Example

5 Share this:

Where to Find this option?

To find this option Launch Word from the Start menu (Windows 10) Click on Start Menu-> # and Select Letter “W” you will find a word icon click on that to open.

Select your word document file or click on the ‘Blank Document’ option and start typing. Click on the ‘Home’ tab (by default home tab is selected) under the paragraph group you will find the bullets and numbering icon as shown below:

To start a numbered list, type 1, a period (.), a space, and some text. Then hit the Enter button. Word will automatically start a numbered list for you as shown below:

Shortcut Key to Insert Bullets

To insert bullets via shortcut key simply press key ‘CTRL + SHIFT + L’.

You can press key ‘SHIFT + */8’ and press the spacebar or ‘Tab’ key the bullet list will be inserted

Shortcut Key to Insert Numbering

To start a numbered list via shortcut key press ‘ALT + H + N’ and select the numbering list as you required.

Understand With – Example

In the below paragraphs we will add bullet list to do that come to the beginning of the para select the bullet list from the home tab or press ‘CTRL +SHIFT + L‘ key.

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