Add Bullets to a List Online, Any Bullet Symbol
Put a bullet in front of every line of a list in your browser: •, –, *, ▪, ◦ or your own symbol. Strip bullets and numbering again with one click. Nothing is uploaded.
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About adding bullets to a list
This page puts a bullet point in front of every item of a list. Paste plain lines copied from a spreadsheet, an email or a chat message, and each one comes back as a bulleted line you can paste into a document, a slide, a forum post or a plain-text email where list formatting is not available. The work happens in your browser; your text is never sent to a server.
How to add bullets
Steps
- Paste your list into Input, one item per line. If the items are separated by commas or semicolons instead, choose that Input separator.
- Add bullets is already selected as the operation. Pick a Bullet: • (the usual round bullet), – (an en dash), *, ▪ (a small square), ◦ (a white circle) or Custom for any symbol or text, such as ✓, → or an emoji.
- Turn on Remove empty items if the list has blank lines that should not get a bullet.
- Press Copy, or Download .txt to save the bulleted list.
Every bullet is followed by a single space, so apple becomes • apple. The order and the text of the items are never changed.
Choosing a bullet
Plain text and Markdown
In Markdown, a line that starts with * or - is a list item, so the asterisk bullet produces a list that renders correctly on GitHub, in many note-taking apps and in chat tools that understand Markdown. The round bullet • is the better choice for plain text that people read as it is, such as a text message or a product description field that does not accept HTML.
Nested lists
For a second level, use a custom bullet with leading spaces, such as two spaces and ◦. Format the sub-items separately and paste them under their parent item.
Removing bullets again
The same tool can undo the change. Choose Remove bullets and numbering in the Operation list and it strips common bullet glyphs (•, ◦, ▪, ●, ■, –, —, *, + and -) and counters such as 1., 2), (3), a. or iv. from the start of each line. A marker must be followed by a space to count, so a negative number such as -5 is left untouched. This is handy when you copy a list out of a word processor and the bullets come along as text.
Numbered lists
If the order matters, choose Add a counter instead. It numbers the items as 1., 1), (1), letters or Roman numerals, from any start value and with any step, with optional zero padding. The full List Formatter also adds prefixes and suffixes, quotes items, pads them and turns a list into columns, coloured HTML or an image.
Related tools
Sort the items first with the List Sorter, or remove repeated lines with the Duplicate Remover.
Open-source credits
The bullet logic is implemented in-house for this site and uses no third-party library. The Markdown list syntax mentioned above is defined by the CommonMark specification, section 5.2 on list items.