Ah, man, this one is hard because "manual" textboxes really don't do bullets
well. You really need to use a placeholder for this.

If you don't want to use an actual placeholder for whatever reason, then
type a character in a placeholder and make a copy of it. It should "hold"
the bullets. (You have to add one character before copying the placeholder,
otherwise it disappears after you copy it but before you can get your cursor
in it to type.)

Another option is to use RnR Shape Styles. I'll be honest, though, I'm not
sure how it does with multiple levels of bullets. (I rarely need to use it
for that. I use it mostly for references--it lets me apply formatting
without stripping existing italicization on the journal names.) But there is
a demo available, so you can check it out at no cost.
http://www.pptools.com/shapestyles/index.html

With normal text boxes (as opposed to the placeholders you and Echo have been
discussing), you can't press TAB to get an indent (and therefore the bullet for
that indent level).

Instead, choose View, Toolbars and put a check next to Outlining.
Use the Outlining toolbar to indent or unindent bullet points; then use Format,
Bullets to set bullet formatting as desired.

It's STILL not going to work quite as smoothly as placeholders, but it's
better.

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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
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