Accidental Delete Of An Outlook Email
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"The semicolon is a useful device for separating a list of items set out in consecutive (as distinct from columnar) form."
As you are suggesting creating a bulleted list, that would make your list columnar rather than consecutive. Accordingly, using semicolons to separate the items (lines) would be a mistake. Given that the items appear not to be sentences, just put a full stop at the end of the final item in the list.
The opening quote, by the way, is from Fowler.
Agree on Fowler, Oxford Dictionary etc.
If you are at work and using bullet points, are they for a Powerpoint presentation? Convention (or at least most common usage) is to have NO punctuation at the end of each bullet point... unless one or more of the sets of text has more than one sentence or idea. In this case it's usual to use a semi-colon at the end of each bullet point, followed by an 'and' at the end of the penultimate bullet point and a full stop at the end of the final bullet point.
On spaces between sentences, after the full stop, the RSA exams always insisted on two spaces (it does make text easier to read) but most newspapers only ever use a single space - more words in any given column/page.