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Open your presentation and navigate to the slide where you want to add character bullets. Select the bulleted paragraphfollowing one of these two ways:
a. If you want to make changes to just one bullet in thetext placeholder (or text box),select that individual line.
b. If you want to make these changes to all the bullets in the text placeholder (or text box), you canselect the entire placeholderby clicking on the edge of the placeholder (see Figure 1).
Figure 1: Slide with bulleted paragraph selected
Access the Home tab of theRibbon. Within the Paragraph group,click the arrow beside the Bulleted List button (highlighted in blue withinFigure 2). This brings up the Bulleted List gallery, as shown in Figure 2.Within this gallery, choose the Define New Bullet option (highlighted in red withinFigure 2).
Figure 2: Bulleted List gallery
This will open the Format Text dialog box with Bullets and Numbering optionselected within the sidebar, as shown in Figure 3. Make sure that the Bullets tab of this dialogbox is selected. In this tab, you can find a box within the Custom bullet section (highlighted inblue within Figure 3). Type any character in this box and you can see on the slidethat the selected text bullets get changed to match the typed character. Look at Figure 3. You can see that wehave typed the character 'X' in the box. You can also see the bullets within the selected bulleted paragraph (highlightedin green within Figure 3) on the slide changed to 'X'.
Figure 3: Bullet editing options within the Format Text dialog box
If you want to change the bullets to some other special character, click the button displaying up and downarrows (highlighted in red within Figure 3) within the Custom bulletsection. This opens the Custom bullet list as show in Figure 4. Select theCharacter option in this list.
Figure 4: Character option within the Custom bullet list
This brings up the Characters dialog box, as shown in Figure 5.
Figure 5: Characters dialog box
Let us explore what Characters dialog box includes (as marked inFigure 5):
A. View
View drop-down list includes different views for the character. Figure 6 shows various views available.
Figure 6: View list
B. Categories
You can choose from different categories available. Use the scroll bar to view more categories. InFigure 5 above, you can see the Math category selected.
C. Characters
Displays the characters included in the selected category. You have to select a character here.In Figure 5 above, you can see the Characters of the Math category.
D. Character info
This section provides you with more info on the selected character. Click the arrow to open the info indrop-down mode.
E. Font Variation
Provides you with variations of the selected character in various fonts. Again, click the arrow to viewthe variations in drop-down mode.
F. Search box
In this box you can type in the name of the special character you are looking for, like arrows, hearts,etc. to instantly open the related category.
In Figure 7 you can see White Right Pointing Index character selected, which isincluded in the Miscellaneous category. Notice the Character Info andFont Variations for the selected character.
Figure 7: Character selected within the Characters dialog box
After selecting the required character, click the Insert button (highlighted inred within Figure 7) in the Characters dialog box. Then, you cansee a preview of the selected character in the Format Text dialog box, as shown highlightedin red within Figure 8.
Figure 8: Symbols preview
Click the OK button to apply the character as a bullet to your selected bulleted paragraph.Figure 9 shows the bullets of the selected place holder changed to White Right Pointing Index (compareFigures 1 and 9).
Figure 9: Bullets changed to White Right Pointing Index
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Tip: Do you want the special character bullets to appear in all slides? You can quickly make that customizationby working within Slide Master.