full stops on list items?
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- Stugoo
(in the UK) With bulleted lists do you end each with a full stop or not?
- honest0
usually it's the final bullet point. Consider the list as a paragraph.
- ********0
Depends if it's a sentence or not.
- Raniator0
if it's more than one sentence in the bullet (ie. separated with a comma or a full-stop) then put a full-stop on the end.
if they are short bullets you don't really need to.
that's my rule anyhoo.
- ********0
Yeah - if you're using punctuation at all (ie a comma) then it would look weird not to.
- BaskerviIle0
either way, make sure you're consistent. but I agree with no full stop for short items. Only sentences
- tomkat0
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- .there you go, copy and paste ahead.
- Jaline0
As people have already mentioned, it depends on if there is already punctuation in the phrase. If so, then, yes, put a period at the end. Also do it for sentences, which really means anything with more than a couple of words.
- Jaline0
For the sake of being consistent, sometimes I will add a period to the end of the word if every other point has one at the end.
- boobs0
Bullet lists are for people who don't really read, right? They're for people who sit and watch PowerPoints. So it doesn't matter whether there's punctuation or not.