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How to turn bullets into check marks?

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December 30, 2024
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Hi, I have a list of text with bullets that would appreciate having a nice check mark instead of a dot next to each item on the list.

I'm a Mac user, BTW. So, I know there is no plugin available for Mac's.

Thanks!

-Ron

macOS

Correct answer LAMY2017

reproducing my entry, since an error occurred during Preview and Post

I don't know how to convert bullets, but I can tell you one way to use any character including checkmarks instead of bullets.

Open the Character Viewer (my Mac is set up to use the bottom-left fn key; press the key once)
Click on Bullets & Stars in the left panel
In the center area, scroll down to the 4th row from the bottom
Click once on the style of checkmark desired (Check Mark -or- Heavy Check Mark)
In the right pane of the Character Viewer, scroll through the font styles of checkmarks (34 styles for Check Mark,
4 for Heavy Check Mark)
Click once on each checkmark to display the font name (Add To Favorites if desired)
With your cursor at the front of a line of text, double-click to insert the checkmark.

Issues:

Only bullets and numbering inserted using the Paragraph tool will cause a paragraph to wrap.

Characters inserted via Mac's Character Viewer
(1) will not wrap paragraphs;
(2) they must be manually copied/pasted at the beginning of the first line in each paragraph

J E L

Community Expert

@SSL-ADT, a simple way is to use the checkmark character in Wingdings and a tab character:

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

Doing type-heavy work in Photoshop is generally not ideal.

What volume of text/images are you processing thusly?

Would using Indesign (as recommended by @Per Berntsen ) be an option?

L

LAMY2017Correct answer

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reproducing my entry, since an error occurred during Preview and Post

I don't know how to convert bullets, but I can tell you one way to use any character including checkmarks instead of bullets.

Open the Character Viewer (my Mac is set up to use the bottom-left fn key; press the key once)
Click on Bullets & Stars in the left panel
In the center area, scroll down to the 4th row from the bottom
Click once on the style of checkmark desired (Check Mark -or- Heavy Check Mark)
In the right pane of the Character Viewer, scroll through the font styles of checkmarks (34 styles for Check Mark,
4 for Heavy Check Mark)
Click once on each checkmark to display the font name (Add To Favorites if desired)
With your cursor at the front of a line of text, double-click to insert the checkmark.

Issues:

Only bullets and numbering inserted using the Paragraph tool will cause a paragraph to wrap.

Characters inserted via Mac's Character Viewer
(1) will not wrap paragraphs;
(2) they must be manually copied/pasted at the beginning of the first line in each paragraph

Larry

jane-e

Community Expert

I don't know how to convert bullets, but I can tell you one way to use any character including checkmarks instead of bullets.
By @LAMY2017

To clarify for others who read this thread, this method does not use the Bullets feature that is built into Photoshop. Instead it inserts a bullet character manually at the start of each paragraph using the macOS Character Viewer.

Jane

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

Which I suppose should be fine for one list of a limited number of items in one image.

Per Berntsen

Community Expert

I don't think this is possible in Photoshop.

InDesign will let you use any character for bullets. Possibly also Illustrator, which I don't use.

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