Is there a keyboard shortcut to indent a nested bullet point in a table cell the proper way?

Open Word and insert a table (1 x 1 will work just fine).

Right-click in the table and, in the context menu, select "Bullets" and a bullet image from the bullet library.

Type something and press enter.

Type something else, but, instead of clicking enter, right-click and select "Increase Indent"

Notice something else moves into the proper indentation of a nested bullet:

Outside of a Word table, you would simply press tab to get this behavior, but I want a keyboard shortcut (if available) to do this inside the table.

This is what I've tried:

• Ctrl + Tab: Just indents the text, not the bullet
• Ctrl + T: Same as Ctrl + Tab
• Ctrl + M: Indents the text and the bullet but does not change the bullet style

Can this be done outside the right-click context menu?

11 Answers

In at least Word 2010, you can increase/decrease the indent in a bulleted or numbered list using the following keyboard shortcuts:

Windows:Shift+Alt+→/←

Mac: Shift+Ctrl+→/←

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Press Enter twice. It works. The first one creates the next nested line at the current indent, but the second stroke decreases the indent to the previous indent and section heading.

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For mac word 2011 also see,

• Cmd+Shift+M to decrease indentation of bullet
• Control+Shift+M to increase indentation of bullet

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You can record a macro (using the Developer tab), and assign it to a keyboard shortcut combination. (Using the Macro Recorder is the easiest way to set this up, but you could also just insert the command Selection.Range.ListFormat.ListIndent in the macro VBA.

Alt+Shift right arrow/left arrow works for me inside a table!

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For Word 2011 for Mac the combination that works is:

control + shift + Left/Right Arrow

You might also try Alt+Right Arrow. It's bound to function IncreaseIndent in Word 2010.

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I have found a solution for increasing indent and decreasing indent shortcuts for Microsoft Word 2019. Look below,

Increase Indent: Ctrl+M
Decrease Indent: Ctrl+Shift+M

option + command + arrow left/right

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Increase indent.. TAB Decrease indent.. SHIFT + TAB

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shift + tab is the shortcut to decrease the bullet point level

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