No one truly knows the origin of the phrase ‘bullet point’ but some say they came about because it was too much trouble to renumber a list once edited on a typewriter. For Windows users, press down the Alt key and type 0149 on the numeric keypad. The Alt-8 shortcut back then would have blown their minds! The symbol for a bullet list can vary from a dash to a little black heart to a tiny cross. To type the Bullet Point symbol on Mac, press Option+8 shortcut on your keyboard. In the day of the typewriter people would type a lowercase ‘o’ and then fill it in with ink. For mac word 2011 also see, Cmd+Shift+M to decrease indentation of bullet Control+Shift+M to increase indentation of bullet. Now you have a bullet point shortcut for Word or Office on PC.īullets have been around for a while. To use a keyboard shortcut, press and hold one or more modifier keys and then press the last key of the shortcut. One can also go with various shapes and numbers. Click the press new shortcut key box and type in your shortcut. On macOS for bullet points or opt for Ctrl + / and Command + / to add numbers respectively. Now choose formatting from the categories list then in the commands list choose format bullet default. To find this choose tools/customise/keyboard (pre Word 2007) and Office/ Word options/customise. If you feel it will pay off you can build your own shortcut. Ok, but what if you want an actual formatted list? On Mac you’re in luck for MS Office, for Windows you may have consistency issues going between versions.
