How to format bullet point in after effects?

Copy paste a text format bullet point here >    ( • ) 

Easy way , write the text in Adobe Illustrator n copy paste

You'll have to format manually, but simply typing a bullet point (on a Mac, Option + 8), or copy-pasting one, worked for me.

For a not very flexible, but quick fix, you can insert an Alt-text bullet point by putting your cursor before the text you want bulleted, then while holding down ALT, enter 0149 on the keypad (windows only, not sure on Mac). Then copy and paste the bullet where needed. Or you can go the Javascript route. 

For a quick and dirty solution that doesn't involve scripting, try this:

1. Use an Extended ASCII font such as Roboto, Arial, or Times New Roman.
2. Highlight and copy this Extended ASCII character between the quotation marks - "·".
3. Paste into your text layer in After Effects.

If you're on Mac, option 8 along with the Indent from Margin option in the Paragraph tab should do it.

On Windows, use the key combination that makes a bullet point along with Indent from Margin.

Hi, was wondering if anyone has advice on bullets that have more than one line of text and getting the following line to indent properly. Thanks!

Format in InDesign (using alt 😎 then copy and paste into AfterEffects. Cheers

I just wrote this script and it seems to work. It is designed to add a bullet with every line return though, so there are limitations to it.

str = text.sourceText;
bullet = str.split("\r");
numBullets = bullet.length;
newStr = "";
for(i = 0; i < numBullets; i++) {
	bullet[i] = "•		" + bullet[i];
	newStr = newStr + bullet[i] + "\r";
}

newStr

Unless you need to animate the individual character positions using the Text Animators available in a text layer you should be laying out your text in Illustrator. You'll have all the tools you need there. If you need to convert carefully laid out text to editable text, layout the text in Photoshop on separate layers.

The only other option, as Mylenium said, is to use multiple text layers and fonts or shape layers for the bullet points. If you have a bunch of these to do you can add expressions to line up the baseline and spacing from the bullets. 

If you have a bunch of this kind of stuff to do I find that it is easier to layout the animations in Keynote or PowerPoint and generate your movie and moves there, then edit the entire project in Premiere Pro. You can get some pretty fancy text transitions in either of those apps and it is pretty easy to create a movie from either app.