Are you still making bulleted and numbered lists by manually typing bullets or numbers at the beginning of each line?
In the 21st century, this is a task no one should be doing by hand. Manually formatted lists are a waste of time and prone to error. If you’re unfamiliar with using automated lists, I recommend you spend some time with your word processor’s manual or help file.
Asterisks are sometimes used as bullets, but they’re not qualified for the job — they’re too small, and they sit too high.
I have a question about numbered lists. I bought the DecoNumbers LH Circle font, mostly because I like the numbered lists in your book. However, when I allow automatic numbered listing on Microsoft Word 2010 (Mac), it puts a period after every number. Although I can change the font of the numbers to look like the circled numbers in your book, Word insists on putting a period after each of the numbers. Do you know of any way to fix this, or is the solution to use a hanging indent and do the lists manually?
No need to do it manually. In the Word popup menu for numbered lists there’s an option called “Define New Number Format.” You can use this option to set your list numbers in a different font, and remove the period after each number. (You can also add text — for instance, you could create a format where the numbers appear in brackets.)
Be warned that after item 9, strange things will happen, as a font like DecoNumbers (or the one I use in the book, Whitney Index) require some hand-holding in Word to set two-digit numbers.