How to add bullet points

Bullet points are how most people read a resume. Experience entries can be filled with bullets in one click, and every other Details field can be turned into a list.

1. Open your resume in the editor and stay on Edit.

2. Under an Experience entry's Details field, click Add bullet. A new bullet appears with the cursor in it, ready to type.

   

3. Press Enter at the end of a bullet to start the next one. Press Enter on an empty bullet to leave the list.

Every other section

Education, Projects, Volunteering and the rest have a Details field but no Add bullet button. Type your lines there, select them, and click the bulleted-list button in the formatting bar. Click it again to turn them back into paragraphs. The button beside it makes a numbered list. This works in an Experience entry too.

Good to know

• The formatting bar sits directly above whichever Details field your cursor is in. It moves under the field when the field is near the top of the screen.
• The bar carries undo and redo, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, alignment, both list styles, subscript and superscript, clear formatting, links, and tables.
• Press Alt+F10 to reach the bar from the keyboard, and Escape to return to your text.
• Start each bullet with what you did and finish with what changed. One line each reads better than three.
• Pasting from another document brings the text and the line breaks, not that document's formatting.