How to customize your bullet lists coloring in Microsoft Office?
Last update: October 2019; Applicable to Office 2019 / 365 / 2019; Windows and macOS.
Here’s a question from Diane:
I would like to go ahead and create a bulleted list in Word. By default, all bullets (or numbers if that’s a numbered lists) are colored black. Question is whether there is a way to switch the bullets to a different color, say red?
Sure Diane. Please read on this tutorial which is applicable for all Office 2016 applications.
Setting bullet point colors
In Word:
- Open your Word document, go to Home and click on the drop down box of bulletin in the paragraph menu.
- Hit Define New Bullet…
- Click on Font in the bullet character.
- In the font color choose needed color for your bullet point and Hit OK.
In Excel
Office does not provide bullet option in Excel and OneNote separately. So to use bulletin read the procedure below.
- Open your excel spreadsheet and select Symbols in the Insert ribbon.
- Select anyone of the symbols to use as a bulletin, hit Insert and select Close.
- Now select all the inserted cell, click on the bottom right of the cell and drag to insert the same bullet point to the other cells.
- To color the bullet point, select the inserted cells and click Home.
- In the font click on the drop down box of font color and select your needed color.
In PowerPoint:
- In your PowerPoint presentation, click on Home and select Bullet in paragraph menu.
- Now, click on the drop down box in bullet and select Bullets and Numbering.
- Click on the color and select your needed colors for you bullet point.
In OneNote:
- Open your OneNote notebook page, click on Insert and select the drop down box in Symbols to use it as Bullet point.
- Select the Bulletin, click Home and select font color in Basic Text to change the bullet color.
Thanks for reading. 