How Do You Move a Bullet Back in Word?
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Pressing Shift+Tab will do this.
answered Jun 24 '10 at 19:02
Tom SavageTom Savage
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In addition to the other answers, there are toolbar/ribbon buttons for "Decrease Indent" and "Increase Indent".
Oh, and one more - I believe if you hit Enter when on a blank item in your list, it decreases its indentation level as well.
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answered Jun 24 '10 at 19:14
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Use Shift + Tab to step back out of the indentation.
answered Jun 24 '10 at 19:03
ChrisFChrisF
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This is not working for me for some reason (MS Word 2007). I can remove the indentation with
Shift+Tabthough.Dec 21 '14 at 21:28
Ctrl + M / Ctrl + Shift + M controls the indentation level of your bulletted/numbered lists.
answered Jun 25 '10 at 1:16
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This works when Shift + Tab and the Increase/Decrease Indent controls do not!
Feb 19 '15 at 0:01
In Google Docs I press Enter twice quickly to 'un-indent' but I don't know if this works for anywhere else... Unfortunately I learnt the very long and hard way.
answered Mar 30 '16 at 11:30
ChloeChloe
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Please read the question again carefully. Your answer does not answer the original question which has nothing to do with google docs.
Apr 1 '16 at 10:36
Press Enter twice to get to the previous outline level.
When at the 2nd indent level ("delete P..." in your example), press Enter once to get to the 1st indent level ("delete M..." in your example). Press Enter twice to get up another level to where your arrow points.
answered Jun 25 '10 at 15:20
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If you are on Mac OS X, use Cmd + [.
answered Oct 2 '15 at 21:52
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Can you expand upon this? You might want to quote the documentation.
Oct 2 '15 at 23:02
Press tab to indent forward. To go back an indent, press tab and then press backspace twice.
answered Mar 30 '16 at 11:35
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Shift+Tabis reverse indent shortcut...Mar 30 '16 at 14:20
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True, but pressing tab and then backspace does the same thing. It's just another way and it's quicker for me
Mar 30 '16 at 14:21
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5 year old question. To repeat what the keyboard combination suggested 5 years ago does. This answer appeared in the review queue.
Mar 30 '16 at 14:38
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Is that bad? The reason I added an answer is because no one else had mentioned this method of tabbing back
Mar 30 '16 at 14:42
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ChrisFsuggested it 6 years ago.Mar 30 '16 at 15:40
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How Do You Move a Bullet Back in Word?
Source: https://superuser.com/questions/156377/in-ms-word-how-do-i-un-indent-a-bullet
Pressing enter before typing anything else will do it on a Mac
Aug 7 '14 at 15:44
@PMV: pressing Enter before typing anything else reduces indent on a Mac - for an empty paragraph. What about for a non-empty paragraph? On Windows, tab/backtab at the start of a paragraph indents/unindents, even if paragraph nonempty.
Jan 28 '15 at 19:24