At the left side of the dialog box click Customize (Word 2007) or Customize Ribbon (later versions of Word).In Word 2010 or a later version, display the File tab of the ribbon and then click Options.) (In Word 2007 click the Office button and then click Word Options. If you want to have that same functionality from the keyboard, you must customize your keyboard. While these may work for what you want done, they don't take the same approach to formatting as the Bullets tool on the Home tab of the ribbon. To remove bullets, you could also use the Ctrl+Shift+N shortcut, which applies the Normal style. If you press Ctrl+Shift+L, Word is supposed to automatically apply the predefined List Bullet style to your paragraph. There are numerous other benefits to using styles, but most of those have been covered in other WordTips.Ĭlosely related to this approach are two built-in shortcuts provided by Word. The first is to use styles and define keystrokes that apply your styles. If you are bound and determined to use the keyboard to apply (and remove) bullets, there are a couple of things you can look at.

Unfortunately, there is no just-as-easy way to do the same thing using the keyboard. Word includes a handy-dandy tool (available on the Home tab of the ribbon, in the Paragraph group) that allows you to add bullets to a paragraph in a jiffy and just as easily remove them.