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. 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. You might prefer to use Outlook as your email app on Mac or simply use it for certain accounts or business. In the day of the typewriter people would type a lowercase ‘o’ and then fill it in with ink. If you’ve been using the keyboard shortcuts we’ve listed for Microsoft Office apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, then these shortcuts for Outlook are for you. Now you have a bullet point shortcut for Word or Office on PC.īullets have been around for a while. The Command key,, formerly also known as the Apple key or open Apple key, is a modifier key present on Apple keyboards. Click the press new shortcut key box and type in your shortcut. 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. Note: If a shortcut requires pressing two or more keys at the same time, this topic separates the keys with a plus sign (+). 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.

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