FORMAT
=> BULLETS
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Business Computing Tips
By K&K Fainges kfainges@bigpond.net.au
Bullets and numbering lets you put the bullets and numbers in
automatically. This makes it very handy for doing the whole lot at once, and
not having to change numbers around by hand when you add something else in. In
this K-tips we will cover just bullets. Look for next week for numbering http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/kfainges/format5.html.
Like most things in the formatting menu, bullets appear on the formatting
toolbar, but the menu gives you a lot more control. REMEMBER like all
formatting, select the text first before clicking on the menu.
By clicking on FORMAT=> BULLETS AND NUMBERING, a box comes up with three
tabs. The first tab covers bullets. A bullet, sometimes called a dot point, is
a pic in front of a line of writing to highlight it. You click one of the
pictures to chose what type of bullet you want to use. By hitting the
'Picture' button, you can chose a lot more, in fact almost anything you want.
The 'Customise' button allows you to set how far in the bullet is, and then
how far in the text is after that. A little pic shows you what it will look
like. When it looks right, hit OK until you are back on your page.
Once the bullet is set up how you like it, hitting the bullet button on the
toolbar is a lot easier. If you add the bullets before you type, hitting enter
at the end of a line will automatically set up the next bullet point. Hitting
enter again will turn the bullets off. If you want extra space between your
bullets, hit the Ctrl key on your keyboard and the number 0 at the same time.
If you want to have more than one type of bullet on the page, you can hit
the increase indent to automatically chose another type. It will change the
pic but appear further in on the page.
If you want them both at the same level, first ask yourself why cause it
can look really messy, but if you insist, go through the formatting menu
and set up the second lot of bullets exactly the way you want them. If it
won't change, hit the 'Reset' button.
If you want to add an extra line in a list of bullet points, click at the
end of the text that is above where you want the typing to go, and hit enter,
a new bullet should appear and the rest move down one line to let them in.
If the text goes funny, remove all the formatting, and then add it again.
Sometimes, the last line will come out wrong. If it does, click at the start
of the line, then hit delete until it is hard against the end of the line
before it, and then hit enter. This should fix things up. If it doesn't,
remove all the formatting and try again.
If you want to add paragraphs to bullet points you have missed the point
somewhat, but hit Ctrl and Enter on your keyboard and the writing will come
down to a new paragraph but keep in the same bullet point.
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Please feel free to pass it on to your friends, just let them know I wrote
it.
Karen Fainges holds a Bachelor of Business, and a Grad. Cert of Vocational
and Educational Training. All this is nice but it's the 14 years of having to
make sales or starve that makes her think she has really learnt what does and
doesn't work. A tutor for all ages, she specialises in helping people get
started on the long road to technology.
"It has to be practical, it has to be cheap, and it has to work."
