Customization is a powerful way to present your presentation in a unique fashion. Even something as simple as changing the style of bullets can have a subtle impact on your audience and will make the presentation more personal.
In this article, I will be showing you how to change the bullet style and color in PowerPoint.
Bullets help you organize ideas and draw the eye to key points, so it pays to pick a style that suits the tone of your slides. A clean, consistent bullet style also keeps a busy slide from feeling cluttered.
1. Highlight the data you want to add/change bullets.
2. On Home, in the Paragraph group, click the arrow beside Bullets.
3. Select “Bullets and Numbering…”
4. From there, you may choose a variety of bullets. You may also want to use other symbols as bullets by using the “Customize…” feature.
5. Done!
Adding Custom Bullets
PowerPoint has a feature that lets you add your own bullets by using your own pictures. The screenshots below show the Windows desktop dialog; picture-source options can vary by version. Here’s how:
1. Highlight the bullets you want to add/change
2. On Home, in the Paragraph group, click the arrow beside Bullets.
3. Select “Bullets and Numbering…”
4. Select “Picture…”
5. Choose which source you want your picture to come from. Either from your own documents or from the internet.
6. Insert the image
7. Done!
Changing Bullet Fonts and colors
To change the bullet color separately from the text, select the list paragraphs, open Home > Bullets arrow > Bullets and Numbering, and choose Color. Use Size in the same dialog to adjust the bullet relative to the text.
To use a different symbol, choose Customize on the Bulleted tab. For a single bullet, put the cursor at the start of that line before opening the dialog; otherwise, select all the paragraphs you want to change.
Conclusion
Whether you want to swap the bullet shape or drop in your own images and symbols, PowerPoint gives you plenty of room to shape the look of your slides. A handful of clicks is usually all it takes to give your bullets a distinctive style that fits your message and your audience.
