Placing Regular Text to the Left of a Bullet - HOW???

[Adam]

I have been trying to find an answer to this question for
some time. In Word 2000, how do I place bullets to the
RIGHT of regular text on the same line as the text.
Example below:

<reg. text here> * <bulleted list text>
<reg. text here> * <bulleted list text>

Every single time I try to do this the bullet moves to the
LEFT of the line thus causing my regular text to be RIGHT
of the bullet. I realize a text box to the left is a good
workaround, but would like to use regular text if possible.

Please, please help and thanks to anyone with suggestions.

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

Use a Table, set to be borderless. Or columns and column breaks.

DM

 

[Graham Mayor]

See http://www.gmayor.com/Text_as_bullet.htm

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[Graham Mayor]

You can do this in the PC version http://www.gmayor.com/Text_as_bullet.htm -
check it out against the Mac!

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[Dayo Mitchell]

Hi Graham,
It can be done on the Mac too, no problem, although I hadn't tested it
before. I just didn't understand his question as asking that.
Overlooked what he meant by regular text.

Thanks,
Dayo

 

[Bruce Brown]

What Adam seems to want here is not text used as a bullet but rather
repeated text followed by a bullet, as in . . .

Text left of bullet * Sentence number one.
Text left of bullet * Sentence number two.

This can be done easily by typing the repeated text first, then
inserting a bullet via Insert > Symbol. If the Times New Roman bullet
is too small, try the Symbol one.

Then copy and paste whenever you need it.

If you want to get fancy, select the repeated text and bullet and make
an AutoText entry of it via Tools > AutoCorrect > AutoText > Add.

- Bruce

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It seems to me the crux of the problem is whether Adam wants *the same* text
left of the bullet every time, in which case it can be handled with
autonumbering or AutoText. If it's different text, and he just wants a
bullet in the middle of a paragraph, then the answer is to insert the bullet
using Insert | Symbol. One can assign a keyboard shortcut to a favorite
bullet (I have a small round bullet assigned to Ctrl+Shift+B).