Custom picture bullets or symbols can add visual interest to a list in Word. If someone sends you a document with a bullet style that you like, you can add the style to the Bullet Library to use again.
Remove styles from gallery Removing a style from the Gallery is too easy. Right-click on the unwanted Style (like Book Title) and choose ‘Remove from Style Gallery'. That deletes the style from the Gallery but NOT from the overall Style list or template.
Note: You cannot create custom bullets in Word for the web. If you own the desktop version of Word, you can use it to do more with bullets. If not, you can try or buy the latest version of Office now.
Add picture bullets or symbols to a list
The Bullet Library includes symbol and picture bullet styles. If you don't see the style that you want in the library, you can define a new bullet style.
Click in the list to which you want to add picture bullets or symbols.
To change an entire list level in a multilevel list, click one bullet or number at that level in the list.
On the Home tab, in the Paragraph group, click the arrow next to Bullets, and then click Define New Bullet.
In Word for Windows:
Click Symbol or Picture, and then choose any symbol or picture that you want to use.
In Word 2013 and Word 2016, you can upload a picture file from your computer, search the Internet for a picture, or sign in to insert photos from another location, such as OneDrive or Flickr.
In Word 2007 and Word 2010, you can upload a picture from your computer (click Import), or search for an image, with the option to include content from Office Online.
In Word for Mac:
Click Bullet (for symbols) or Picture (to use a picture file stored on your computer).
Click Insert or OK to preview the new bullet in the Define New Bullet dialog box (Windows) or the Customize Bulleted List dialog box (Mac), and then click OK.
After you create a bulleted item, your new bullet style is available in your Document Bullets list.
Add picture bullets or symbols to a list
The Bullet Library includes symbol and picture bullet styles. If you don't see the style that you want in the library, you can define a new bullet style.
Click in the list to which you want to add picture bullets or symbols.
To change an entire list level in a multilevel list, click one bullet or number at that level in the list.
On the Home tab, in the Paragraph group, click the arrow next to Bullets, and then click Define New Bullet.
In Word for Windows:
Click Symbol or Picture, and then choose any symbol or picture that you want to use.
In Word 2013 and Word 2016, you can upload a picture file from your computer, search the Internet for a picture, or sign in to insert photos from another location, such as OneDrive or Flickr.
In Word 2007 and Word 2010, you can upload a picture from your computer (click Import), or search for an image, with the option to include content from Office Online.
In Word for Mac:
Click Bullet (for symbols) or Picture (to use a picture file stored on your computer).
Click Insert or OK to preview the new bullet in the Define New Bullet dialog box (Windows) or the Customize Bulleted List dialog box (Mac), and then click OK.
After you create a bulleted item, your new bullet style is available in your Document Bullets list.
Add a picture bullet or symbol to the Bullet Library
If you receive a document with a bullet style that you want to reuse in your own documents, you can add it to your Bullet Library, where it will always be available for use in your documents.
Note: In Word for Mac, custom bullet styles are automatically added to the Bullet Library.
Open the document that contains the bullet that you want to add to your Bullet Library.
On the Home tab, in the Paragraph group, click the arrow next to Bullets, and then under Document Bullets, right-click the bullet style that you want to add to the Bullet Library and click Add to Library.
Remove custom bullet styles from the Bullet Library
Note: You cannot remove custom bullet styles from the Bullet Library in Word for Mac. The following applies to Word for Windows only.
On the Home tab, in the Paragraph group, click the arrow next to Bullets, and then under Bullet Library, right-click the bullet style that you want to remove and click Remove.
Notes:
Any bullets currently being used in a document are always available in the Bullet Library.
If you remove a bullet from the Bullet Library and it is still available in the Document Bullets area, you can easily add the bullet back to the Bullet Library for use in other documents.
See also
Microsoft Word styles are powerful tools included in all versions of Word.
If you are a new user, you may not know what styles are or how to apply them to format your documents.
Whether you own Word 2007 or any later version, this article will help you understand the basics of Microsoft Word styles.
It shows you how to find the predefined styles, and includes a tutorial that shows you how to change the style set and easily format your document by applying styles. It also briefly covers the topic of custom styles.
What are Microsoft Word styles and why should I use them?
A style is a definition that determines the document formatting options that are applied to characters or paragraphs.
How many times have you gone through a lengthy document and manually reformatted the same text over and over again to get it right? It can waste hours of your time and all of that clicking can give you a nasty case of carpal tunnel syndrome.
Using styles helps you use consistent formatting throughout your document. Applying a style only takes a click or two so it is much faster than manually formatting block after block of text.
Styles can contain definitions for fonts, paragraph spacing, line height, hyphenation, tabs, page breaks, indentation, and more!
As you can see from the list, styles can become quite complex. But don't worry, Microsoft Word contains many predefined styles. That means you can use them even if you don't know how to create your own styles from scratch.
Finding the predefined styles on the Ribbon
There are different ways to access the predefined Microsoft Word styles, but the easiest way in Word 2007 or 2010 is to select one from the Quick Style gallery.
Quick Styles were introduced in Word 2007 and are located on the Home tab. There are 11 style sets to choose from, 14 style sets in Word 2010. Each set can be altered by selecting different theme colors or fonts, resulting in thousands of unique styles available for document formatting.
Tutorial
How to apply Word styles
For the following tutorial, open Word 2007 and start a new document. (These instructions also work for Microsoft Word 2010.)
Step 1: Create a sample Word document
Let's begin by entering some dummy text so you can see how changing the style set affects the document formatting.
Here is how to enter random text into a document:
- Type the following code: =rand()
- Press Enter.
Entering this code inserts three paragraphs of text into your document.
Step 2: Change the style set
Now let's see how easy it is to change the look and feel of the document just by changing the style set.
Follow these steps to change the style set in your sample document:
- On the Home tab, click Change Styles.
- Point to Style Set, then hover the pointer over each style set to preview it.
- Click the Word 2007 (or Word 2010) style set to apply it to the document.
Optional: Change theme fonts and colors
To change the theme fonts or colors, click Change Styles again, then select either Colors or Fonts from the menu. In Word 2010, there is an additional option on the menu for changing paragraph spacing.
Step 3: Create a title by applying a style
Now that you have selected a style set, let's apply some styles to the text in your document.
Follow these steps to easily create a title by applying a style:
- Place your cursor at the beginning of the first line of text.
- Type the words Word 2007 Galleries, then press Enter.
- Place your cursor inside (or highlight) the text you just typed.
- On the Home tab, in the Quick Style gallery, click the Title style. (If you don't remember what the gallery looks like, jump back up the page to the screenshot of the Quick Style gallery, then come back.)
The new style is applied and your document now has a professional-looking title.
Step 4: Apply paragraph formatting
If you are following the steps in this tutorial, your paragraph formatting is probably set to the default (Normal) style. But just in case it isn't, let's apply the default paragraph and font style to make sure that the formatting is consistent throughout the document.
Follow these steps to apply the Normal style:
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- Highlight all three paragraphs of text. (Don't highlight the title.)
- In the Quick Style gallery, click the Normal style.
All of the text changes to the default font with the default paragraph spacing.
Step 5: Apply text formatting
The text looks a bit boring, so let's add emphasis to certain words by applying a character style.
Follow these steps to apply bold formatting to selected text:
- Highlight the first instance of the term Quick Styles.
- Apply the Strong style from the Quick Style gallery.
- Repeat with each instance of the terms Theme and Quick Style(s).
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You have just formatted your first document using Microsoft Word styles! Not only does it look professional, but you have created a handy reference guide to Microsoft Word 2007 galleries.
Before you close the document, why not print it?
Beyond the basics – custom Microsoft Word styles
The predefined styles give you lots of document formatting options to choose from, but you can also create your own custom Microsoft Word styles.
You can create new styles for each document, or you can save your custom styles and reuse them later. Saving styles you use often is a good way to speed up the process of creating Word documents.
So how do you save the custom styles you create?
You save them to a template. You can save styles you always want available to the default (Normal.dotm) template, or you can save styles to custom templates.
You may have already used some of the custom Microsoft Word templates that are available in the Template gallery.
Open the Microsoft Office Template Gallery
To open the Template gallery, click the Office Button, then click New. To download the free online templates, you must have Genuine Microsoft Office software installed.
The next time you use a Microsoft Word template, look at the Quick Style gallery within the document to see the custom styles the author created.
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