Use a Picture or Symbol as a Bullet in Word 2007
In addition to formatting text, you can customize bullets for individual bullet points or for all the bullet points in a document. You can change a bullet’s font, style, and color or replace a bullet with a picture or symbol.
Applying a Picture Bullet
- Select the list items for which you want to change bullet styles
- On the Home tab, Paragraph group, click the arrow to the right on the bullet command and select Define New Bullet option
- Click the Picture button to open the Picture Bullet dialog box
- To add a picture bullet from the list
- Scroll to and select the desired picture bullet
- Click OK twice and the bullet style is changed for all selected list item
- Or, to import your own picture bullet
- Click the Import button to open the Add Clips to Organizer dialog box
- From the Look in pull-down list, navigate to and select the desired picture
- Click the Add button and the picture appears in the list of picture bullets
- Scroll to and select the desired picture bullet
- Click OK twice and the bullet style is changed for all selected list items.
Applying a Symbol Bullet
- Select the list items for which you want to change bullet styles
- On the Home tab, Paragraph group, click the arrow to the right on the bullet command and select Define New Bullet option
- Click the Symbol button to open the Symbol dialog box
- From the Font pull-down list, select the desired font for your bullet
- From the scroll list, navigate to and select the desired bullet
- Click OK twice and the bullet style is changed for all selected list items