Modifying Bulleted Lists

Most of the slide layouts in the New Slide gallery provide a title text box and other object placeholders. For example, there are layouts for a title and content, a title and two contents, a title and a caption, and so on. Because the bulleted list is such an important mainstay of a PowerPoint presentation, the object boxes enable you to immediately begin entering text in a bulleted list. This makes the object content box a text box. Each time you press Enter, you can create a new bulleted item in the list.

Because presentations are really a collection of topics and points that you want to bring to your audience’s attention, most of your presentation slides probably contain bulleted lists. Again, by default, typing in ...

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