Subject: Re: Problems deleting a list
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Jul 11 2000 - 21:49:23 CDT
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, WJCarpenter wrote:
> >> One button would be for numbered lists. Press the button and it
> >> stays down and you've started a numbered list. Press the button
> >> again and the list stops.
>
> anders> I have not yet tried out lists, but when I read the above I
> anders> immediately thought "how do you do nested lists with that?".
>
> Yeah. In ThatOtherWordProcessor, there are two more buttons for
> indent and "outdent". They are for nested lists. I'm not sure, but I
> think the style stuff determines what kind of bullets/numbering you
> get.
It was just an idea. The Bullets and Numbering dialog allows all the
functionality you could want in lists including changing a list from
numbered to lower case lettered, upper case lettered, bulleted,
multi-levels of bullets and numbers all in an easy to use modeless dialog
that reflects the current state of the list (or lack thereof) that the
cursor is sitting on. It slices bread too :-)
Personally as a MS user I usually just started and stopped numbered and
bulleted lists the mannor I described so I was wondering if other people
thought it would be a good idea to devote some of our scarce screen
real-estate to two such butons. An alternate that I also like is a button
that when pressed launches the Bullets and Numbering dialog (look under
format). It would be really easy to do this. However the point is what
would be best for our users. If our developers are finding it hard to
start a list I think we can be sure it would be much harder for a Church
Secretary.
Cheers
Martin
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