Notice that each level in the screenshot above uses its own bullet type, including numbers! Just as you can with regular numbered or bulleted lists, Word 2010 allows you to customize the bullets or numbering scheme to use you can use a different bullet style for each level of nested list, and you can even use a mix of numbers / letters / and symbols (think of a nested legal document). Customize bullets / numbers in nested lists From a regular nested list, hit Enter to add a new item, and press Tab. Tip: you can of course follow these same steps to create a 'sub-sub-list' of items. To close the current list level, either hit Enter twice, and the new item will be back to the main level, or press Shift+Tab to 'unindent' the level of the current sub-item, and make it part of the main list (in summary: 'Tab' will indent, 'Shift+Tab' will unindent).

Keep going until you have finished adding content to your nested list.

And voilà! Just enter some text for the sub-item when you hit Enter, Word will add a new item at the same level as the current (in other words, it too will be a sub-item).

Then, press Enter as you normally would to make Word 2010 add another item to the list but now, instead of typing some text, start by pressing the Tab key:.

As example, let's add a sub-list after the second item click inside the text of the second bullet point, and press End on your keyboard to go to the end of the line.

Start by creating a sample bulleted list ('unordered') or numbered list ('ordered') inside your document three items will be enough.

Windows key command for bullet point