\paragraph{Testing} \begin{itemize} \item (Help) \item (Individual) \item (Test) \end{itemize} This gives me 
I'm trying to align text inside parenthesis equally & center. Something like the below. Tried makebox but I'm sure how to use it properly.
( Help ) (Individual) ( Test ) \makebox[<width>]{...} creates a box of fixed length and centres its content by default if the content is shorter then the box. However, you would need to "find" the correct value of the parameter <width>.
A more convenient macro is defined in eqparbox, that is \eqmakebox[<label>]{...}. The difference is you supply a label, e.g. list, instead of a length <width> and a length of all boxes corresponding to the same label [list] are calculated to fit the longest content.
\documentclass{article} \usepackage{eqparbox} \newcommand\mb[1]{(\eqmakebox[list]{#1})} \begin{document} \paragraph{Testing} \begin{itemize} \item \mb{Help} \item \mb{Individual} \item \mb{Test} \end{itemize} \end{document} 
You can use a tabular environment for this. The brackets are placed automatically for the first and last column.
I defined an environment bracketitemize and a command \bitem to make this more comfortable.
\documentclass{article} \usepackage{array} \newenvironment{bracketitemize}{% \setlength{\tabcolsep}{0pt}% \begin{tabular}{ >{\textbullet\quad (} c c >{)} c }% }{% \end{tabular}% } \newcommand{\bitem}[1]{% & #1 &\\% } \begin{document} manually: { \setlength{\tabcolsep}{0pt} \begin{tabular}{ >{\textbullet\quad (} c c >{)} c } & Help &\\ & Individual &\\ & Test &\\ \end{tabular} } \medskip With \texttt{bracketitemize}: \begin{bracketitemize} \bitem{Help} \bitem{Individual} \bitem{Test} \end{bracketitemize} \end{document} 