How to Customize Bullets in PowerPoint
When you are creating a presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint, you will use bulleted lists quite often. Bullets are very useful when you have several points to convey, allowing you to just list them without trying to incorporate them smoothly into your text. Breaking up a paragraph in this way is also easier for the reader, allowing them to find important information quickly. Using bullets also helps to break up the monotony. Microsoft PowerPoint offers several different bullet styles, or you can create your own bullets to customize your document. This can be fun when creating presentations that have logos or themes or differentiating different types of information.
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Instructions
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Open your presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint 2007.
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Write and select the text you want to convert to bullets. Hit the Enter key after each point. Many PowerPoint slide templates will automatically bullet the text you enter.
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Select the Home menu. In the Paragraph section, locate the bullets button. It will look like a tiny bulleted list with a down-pointing arrow to the right of it.
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Click the down-pointing arrow. This will display a several choices of bullet styles to choose from. If you don’t see what you like, click on Bullets and Numbering at the bottom of the pop-up menu.
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Make more choices from default options on the dialogue box that appears. If you still do not see what you want, click on the Picture button to use pictures for your bullets or on "Customize" to choose different symbols.
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Select "Picture" to use a picture that is available in the dialogue box that comes up or click "Import" to locate a picture from your computer and select it, then click Add. You can then use that picture as a bullet.
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Know that if you chose Customize, a symbol dialogue box will appear. There, you will be able to select one of many different symbols offered in the Microsoft Office products. If you do not see one you like, click on the Font and Subset menus at the top to see more choices. Wingdings has many to choose from.
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Realize there are buttons on the Bullets and Numbering dialogue box that will allow you to change the color or size of your bullet.
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Click "OK" when you're finished. Your text should now be bulleted with the bullets you customized.
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