How to Remove the Bullets in a PowerPoint File

Although the first slide Microsoft PowerPoint defaults to in a new presentation has just two text boxes showing, as you start adding slides you notice a bit of a dotted trail. Small bullets begin to fill up the slides, intended to break up presenters' speeches into bite-sized text for audience digestion. Whether you opened a PowerPoint template or are editing one of your own, remove bullets with quick ease, no "firing" required.

Instructions

1

Open PowerPoint. Click the "File" tab and select "Open," then browse to the file with the bullets to remove. Double-click the presentation's filename.

2

Press the "Page Down" key on the keyboard to get to the first slide with bullets to remove.

3

Click the text box the bullets are in. Press the "Delete" key. Note this removes the text along with the bullets.

4

Scroll to another bulleted slide. Highlight the bulleted text. Note the bullets themselves are not highlighted, but PowerPoint knows your actions will affect them.

5

Right-click the highlighted area. Select "Bullets" and click the "None" option from the fly-out menu. The bullets are removed but the text remains.

6

Click the cursor to the right of a bullet to remove, which is to the left of the first character in the bulleted text. Press the "Backspace" key on the keyboard. The bullet is removed. This is an individual process, rather than something that may be performed in a bulk list of bullets.