CorelDRAW Help | Adding bullets to text

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Adding bullets to text

You can use bulleted lists to format information. You can wrap text around bullets, or you can offset a bullet from text to create a hanging indent. CorelDRAW lets you customize bullets by changing their size, position, and distance from text. You can also change the spacing between items in a bulleted list. For more information, see To adjust interline spacing.

Three paragraphs (left) were converted into a bulleted list (right)

You can remove a bullet without deleting the text.

To add bullets

Using the Text tool

, select the paragraph text.

If the Object properties docker is not open, click Window

Dockers

Object properties.

In the Object properties docker, click the Paragraph button

to display the paragraph-related options.

In the Paragraph area of the Object properties docker, click the arrow button

located at the bottom of Paragraph area to display additional options.

Enable the Bullets check box.

Click the Bullet settings button.

In the Bullets dialog box, perform a task from the following table.


To	Do the following
Preview text with bullets	Enable the Preview check box.
Choose a font	In the Appearance area, choose a font from the Font list box.
Choose a symbol	Open the Symbol picker, and click a symbol.
Set a bullet size	Type a value in the Size box.
Adjust the bullet position	Type a value in the Baseline shift box.
Set the distance from the text frame	In the Spacing area, type a value in the Text frame to bullet box.
Set the distance between the bullet and the text	Type a value in the Bullet to text box.


You can also
Add a bullet with a hanging indent	Enable the Use hanging indent style for bulleted lists check box.
Change the color of a bullet	Select the bullet with the Text tool , and click a color on the color palette.
Remove bullets	In the Paragraph area of the Object Properties docker, disable the Bullets check box.
Indent an entire bullet paragraph	In the Paragraph area of the Object properties docker, type the same value in the First line indent and Left line indent boxes.

Bullets are inserted at the beginning of each new line that is preceded by a return.

You can adjust the spacing in between bullets by increasing or decreasing the space before and after a paragraph. For more information, see To adjust the spacing between paragraphs.

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