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.

In the day of the typewriter people would type a lowercase ‘o’ and then fill it in with ink. Click on tools at the top menu bar and sele. Now you have a bullet point shortcut for Word or Office on PC.īullets have been around for a while. In todays lesson, you will learn how to highlight duplicate sentences in Word for macOS.Open the file you need. Click the press new shortcut key box and type in your shortcut. The text is shown as if it had been marked with a highlighter. Click and drag over the text you want highlighted.

Now choose formatting from the categories list then in the commands list choose format bullet default. (In some versions of Word this tool is called the Text Highlight Color tool.) When you click the tool, the mouse pointer changes to show a highlighter pen symbol.

Underline, and strikethrough to text in your message, you need to highlight the text Word. To find this choose tools/customise/keyboard (pre Word 2007) and Office/ Word options/customise. Strikethrough Shortcut (Mac & PC) for Word, Google Docs. 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.

Short cut for highlight in word mac