Bullets and Numbering: Change Bulleted List to Numbered List in PowerPoint

Created: Friday, August 10, 2018, posted by Geetesh at 12:29 pm

Updated: Thursday, July 7, 2022 at 12:11 pm

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In PowerPoint, when you type text within a text or Content placeholder, the default result is that you end up creating a bulleted list. Also, when you import an outline, all the content other than the slide titles ends up becoming bulleted text. While this may work in some situations, at other times you may want to either remove the bullets altogether, or convert it to a numbered list.

To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.

Microsoft Windows

Change Bulleted List to Numbered List in PowerPoint 2016

Change Bulleted List to Numbered List in PowerPoint 2013

Change Bulleted List to Numbered List in PowerPoint 2010

Apple Mac

Change Bulleted List to Numbered List in PowerPoint 2011

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