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Learn how to insert bullet points in an Excel cell.

To add bullet points in an Excel cell using cell formatting, you can follow these steps. First, select the cell where you want to insert the bullet points. Then, right-click on the cell and choose "Format Cells" from the menu. In the Format Cells dialog box, go to the "Alignment" tab. Under the "Text alignment" section, select the "Wrap text" option to allow text to wrap within the cell. Next, go to the "Number" tab and select "Custom" from the category list. In the "Type" field, enter "* " (without quotes) followed by a space. This will format the cell to display a bullet point followed by a space for each new line of text entered into the cell. Press OK to apply the formatting. Now, you can type your list items into the cell, pressing Enter after each item to create a new line with a bullet point. This method enables you to create bullet point lists directly within Excel cells using cell formatting options.

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Select Bullet Points Character
1) Windows Start button
2) Launch Character Map
3) Double click on the bullet character
4) Copy

Insert Bullet Points In A Cell
1) Select To-Do List
2) Home ~ Style ~ Conditional Formatting
3) New Rule...
4) Use formula to determine which cells to format
5) =B1""
6) Format
7) Number tab
8) Custom
9) • @
10) OK
11) OK

Use Different Bullet Points Character
1) Select To-Do List
2) Home ~ Style ~ Conditional Formatting
3) Manage Rules...
4) Double click on your rule
5) Format
6) ♥ @
7) OK
8) OK
9) OK


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00:00here is how you can insert bullet points to your data set list and the best part is you can
00:04use
00:04any kind of bullet points let me show you how this is done first thing you have to do is
00:08to
00:08select your bullet point character click on your windows start and then after that launch something
00:13called character map this is the standard windows application that everybody has launch it and you
00:18should come up with this pop-up window here if you scroll down a bit here you'll find some characters
00:23you can potentially use for your bullet points like this one here and i'm going to use say for
00:28that for example this dot here and double click on it and click on a copy button here that's how
00:33you
00:33select your character map if you like different kind of character map you just select whichever
00:37character you want once that once you hit the copy here let's go back to your excel spreadsheet here
00:42the next thing you have to do is to apply the bullet points to your data set i'm going to
00:47select my
00:48column b and go home style conditional formatting new rule in here i'm going to select use a formula
00:56and the formula i'm going to use is this equal b1 not equal to blank which means that if it's
01:05not
01:05equal to blank which means if it does have some items in it i'm going to apply this format go
01:10to
01:10format here make sure you are in the number tab here select custom from the category and in here delete
01:18the word general and press ctrl v to paste whatever you copied on your clipboard from the character map
01:24app here and press a space button and put an add symbol like this and after i click ok and
01:31ok one
01:32more time and you'll see that all your data set lists will have a bullet points now now you can
01:39go ahead
01:39and say for example add a few more points here i'm going to say document sign off and maybe finalize
01:45expense expenses like this you can see anytime i add a new entry on my list those bullet points will
01:52be added
01:52now at this point you can also go back and change your bullet point to something else let me show
01:58you
01:58what i mean by that go ahead and launch your character map one more time and let's say this
02:02time around i'm going to put a heart symbol here like this here double click on it let's get rid
02:07of
02:07the old one first double click on it to select it and then click on the copy button here and
02:14then let's go
02:14back to your excel spreadsheet here select your column b or your data set list that you're going to apply
02:19the
02:19bullet point to go and launch your conditional formatting go home style conditional formatting
02:24over here you're going to select manage rules and then double click on the rule that you just added
02:30here so it's now a few minutes ago this is the rule that we added go format make sure your
02:35number tab
02:35on the custom now you're going to replace this black dot or whatever your original bullet point was
02:40with ctrl v whatever you copied on your clipboard here so mine's going to be a heart and click on
02:46ok
02:46ok and one more ok and you can see that the bullet point go updated and just as a test
02:52i'm going to
02:52say maybe just say test one you can see anytime i add a new line the entry will have a
02:58bullet point

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