How to: List After a Bullet on PowerPoint. In Microsoft PowerPoint, bullets and lists are really the same thing, except one has markers in front of each item and the other uses sequential numbers.

Bullets are points that are added to a list or data to make it more organized. In Microsoft PowerPoint, users can add animation to these bullets to show the points one at a time.

This is the demonstration file to accompany the article, How to create fun bouncing-ball bullet points in Microsoft PowerPoint, by Susan Harkins.

(A firm called Duarte Design helped Gore create his slides; they used Apple's Keynote software, not PowerPoint.) Skip the bullets. Bullet points turn a presentation into a series of boring lists.