Subject: Re: New List Dialog Ideas (LONG!)
bob@abisource.com
Date: Fri Aug 04 2000 - 15:28:15 CDT
With any note this long, you would expect people to start picking at it.
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 04:04:31PM -0400, Thomas Fletcher wrote:
> Comment #2
> ----------
>
> Word doesn't let you have an empty list item, which means
> that you can quickly terminate a list at any time by hitting
> return twice. For example if I have:
>
> 1. A line
> 2. Another line |
>
> Then hit return once I get
>
> 1. A line
> 2. Another line
> 3. |
>
> Then hitting return again, Word detects that I've done a
> double return and rips out the 3rd list item and does this:
>
> 1. A line
> 2. Another line
>
> |
>
> Which is most likely what we would want since generally you
> start a new paragraph/add a line of whitespace after a list.
> Alternately if I was at the
>
This one I disagree with. MSWord goes way too overboard on trying to "guess" what users want. Maybe I want a blank list entry. Actually, in the past I had, but couldn't figure out how to make one. You really have to be careful when making such assumptions.
As for the rest of your comments, I thought they they were very well thought out. Everyone would do well to take a look at all of these cases, and start to think like a typical user in such scenarious. Kudos on getting that written up, especially in such an organized fashion.
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