I am looking for a way to (without using VBA) create an outline list with standard formatting, but I need each primary entry to not only begin with a number, but also have a standardized graphic displayed in the left margin. It would look something like this if you imagine the smileys as my a custom graphic...

1.

a.
b.
c.

2.

a.
b.
c.

Thanks for your help.

Regards,

Donovan

You can add text before an outline number, but not a symbol, which would require that you specified a different font (for the bullet only).

What you can do is add a two-column table and insert the bullet in the cells of the left-most column.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional

Thank you for your time. I appreciate the suggestion. The purpose for the method I sought is to allow a user who otfen creates work instructions to easily include a sign-off box to the left of the primary step numbers. I appreciate that thee are other ways to reach the same result, but I was hoping to take advantage of Word's automated numbering. Thanks again for your time, Stefan.

Regards,

Donovan

If a simple check-box would do, you could perhaps use a check-box character from a font such as Wingdings: lower-case q, for example, for a simple check-box with a discreet drop shadow.

And if you don't need a number as well as the checkbox – though that is perhaps unlikely – you could set styles and enter [checkbox] [tab] at the start of each primary entry. Worth it for simpler list management <g>

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Within a list item, you could only insert a symbol that exists in the current font (= the font which is being used for the list item). Since many fonts are Unicode these days, it might suffice.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional

Useful reminder – I'd assumed you could at least set a separate font for the bullet character.

Unfortunately no. The whole list item, at a particular level, is the same font.

But with Unicode fonts, this is less of a limitation than it used to be. :-)

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional

Thank you all for taking the time to consider this. I apprciate the feedback.