Animating bullet points on a single slide

I have a slide with 4 bullet points on.
How do I progress the bullets by clicking play and having the slide automatically advance to reveal the next bullet and pause before showing the bullet after that. Like you would build in Keynote or PowerPoint
I can do this over 4 individual slides but that seems ridiculous in this day and age.
Please help.
Many Thanks
John

Thanks for your help.
Of course I wouldn't dream of using this level of software without some training. My first port of call before I even signed up for the trial was Lynda.com. I subscribe to that site and have always been impressed with their work. I did over 5 hours with 'Adobe Captivate 8 Essential Training' and 'Captivate Projects: Mobile and Responsive Design' I then revisited them after I started the trial and have been revisiting then frequently for the past two days. Good courses I thought!
There are all sort of bugs in AC8 that are both frustrating and surprising for a mature piece of software...I guess its probably just me with unreasonably high expectations. Manually scrolling the timeline often does not give a true representation of the slides progress...reordering timeline layers often leaves the layer names in the wrong order, allocated to the wrong layer - with the need to select another slide and then select the original to correct the layer names. Layers also sometimes jump when moving them. Grouping objects is a very unpredictable operation - these are just a few of the more frequent frustrations.
The inability to on the fly test in different browsers...? :-0
No .ai or even .svg import...pretty unbelievable...astonishing even! AI is part of the Adobe Family - How wonderful would this be for Smart Shapes instead of the basic array of tools AC provides.
Symbol type libraries for commonly used items
I could go on but I don't want to bore you and in truth I expect, being such a new user, I am getting much of this wrong and missing where to control these issues.
Doing a simple PowerPoint type presentation that I can export to HTML5, with a bit of user interaction I expected to be a walk in the park for AC...but its actually a very intricate process...maybe I should go back Hype3 Pro, a good HTML5 application...but Its a much lower level of app I love to learn to use industry standard software. The must be a reason AC has such a dedicated user-base.
I am however, terrifically grateful to you for taking the me to try and help me.
I'll re-start my efforts again in the morning when my stress level have returned to something around normal!
John

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