How to Edit Bullets in PowerPoint
On many of the slide templates included with Microsoft PowerPoint, text is automatically created in bullet form. By simply typing into a text box and pressing the "Enter" key, you add a new bullet, creating a list of text for each slide. Although PowerPoint opens with a default appearance, size and spacing for its bullets, they are fully editable. Change bullet appearance with a few clicks to give your PowerPoint just the right look.
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Instructions
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Open Microsoft PowerPoint. Click the "File" tab. Click "Open." Browse to the presentation file with the bullets to edit and double-click the file name. The presentation opens in the workspace with the title/first slide showing.
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Press the "Page Down" key on the keyboard to get to the slide with the bullets to edit.
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Click into the text of the first bullet to edit. To change the text on the bulleted line, highlight the text and type directly over it. To change the text's appearance on the line, highlight the text and use the font, color or size options in the "Font" section of the "Home" tab's ribbon.
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Change the bullet appearance by highlighting all of the bullets to change -- the bullets themselves will not be caught in the highlighting, just the text. Right-click the highlighted section, hover the cursor over "Bullets" and choose one of the new bullet styles. The bullets instantly change.
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Customize a bullet or bulleted list by right-clicking the bullet or highlighted bulleted list, hovering over "Bullets" and selecting "Bullets and Numbering" to open a window of the same name with the "Bulleted" tab opened.
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Nudge down the "Size" box to reduce the bullet size, such as to 50 percent of the text. Click the "Color" box and click a small colored square to give the bullets, which default to black, a new color.
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Add custom bullets by clicking the "Picture" button. Click "Import." Browse to a picture or graphic to use for the bullet and double-click it. Click "OK" and click "OK" again. The picture -- which PowerPoint automatically reduces to the appropriate bullet size -- replaces the previous bullet(s).
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Delete a bulleted list or bulleted text box entirely by clicking the text box and pressing the "Delete" key.
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