powerpoint bullets?

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i used custom bullets, but now i want powerpoint to automatically number for
me when I hit return. Can this be done?
 
I'm not sure I understand. Do you want some kind of custom numbering?
Ignoring the part about custom bullets, you can just hit the numbering tool
on the toolbar or choose Bullets and Numbering from the Format menu (and
click on the Numbered tab and choose a format for numbering).
--David

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David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/
 
In powerpoint you are able to right click on pre-formatted bullet in a
slide--you are then presented with a bullets and numbering box--from which
you may select "customize"--you are then presented many symbols, characters
etc.. from which you can select to have inserted as replacements for the
standard powerpoint bullets. Once I select a new bullet (or symbol) I would
like powerpoint to automatically use this symbol until further notice.

My issue is then further complicated by the fact that I have selected
symbols that are bullets with independant numbers within each symbol. So,
instead of bullet, bullet, bullet on a slide I need to have bullet1, bullet2,
bullet3. My thought was that somewhere in powerpoint Microsoft had template
functionality for numbering so that I could predetirmine my custom bullets
within some framework.

Does this help, or make my issue more confusing ?
 
Now I understand. You have special bullets that contain numbers but are
not, strictly speaking, numbers. You want to do the perfectly logical
thing, which is to use them like numbers. As far as I know, PowerPoint is
not that smart, but someone else might know a better answer.
--David

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David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/
 
David M. said:
Now I understand. You have special bullets that contain numbers but are
not, strictly speaking, numbers. You want to do the perfectly logical
thing, which is to use them like numbers. As far as I know, PowerPoint is
not that smart, but someone else might know a better answer.
Click to expand...

With a font editor you could probably fake it by replacing the glyphs at the
character positions occupied by 1, 2, 3 and so on with the ones for the custom
bullets that happen to look like 1, 2, 3 within circles or squares or whatever.

Wouldn't work past 9 bullets, of course.

My best guess is that PPT normally says "OK, custom bullet. You want me to use
character X from Font Blah for all of the bullets. Done."

If you choose numbering, it says instead "OK, I'll use the font the text is in,
but start with the character at position 31(h) and sequentially move onward
through 39, then start combining them ... 31(h) and 30(h), 31 31, 31 32 and so
on."

You can sort of see this happening if you set the text to Wingdings and then
set numbered bullets ... open CharMap at the same time and you can see the
pattern.
 
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