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The main purpose of the list structure is to provide a means of treating a list
of items as a unit from the formatting point of view. The formatting attributes
that can be changed are:
- Left and right margins.
- Text style.
- Spacing - the space before and after the list.
- Adornment - a list can have a box drawn around it or lines drawn along one
or more sides. The background can be shaded or coloured.
- An optional Bullet character.
- Automatic numbering.
List body
In addition to controlling the format of the list as a whole the list body can
be selected to control the format of the individual paragraphs it contains. The
formatting attributes that can be changed are:
- The space before, space after and line spacing of all the paragraphs
contained in the list.
- Adornment - each list item can be adorned either by having a box drawn
around it or by having lines drawn along one or more sides.
- The indentation or space between bullet and left margin.
Left and right margins
- 1 Select the List or Sub-list you want to change.
2 Drag the left and right margin markers to their new positions.
or
2 Double-click on the margin markers and edit the values.
Indentation marker
- 1 Select the List body you want to change.
2 Drag the indentation marker to its new position.
or
2 Double-click on the indentation marker and edit its value.
Text
- Select the List or Sub-list you want to change
- Choose Font, Colour, Country or Case from the
Text menu to change the text attributes of the list.
Spacing before and after the list
- Select the List or Sub-list you want to change.
- Choose Spacing from the Format menu to open a dialogue box
where you can change the values for the space before and after the list.
Spacing before and after each list item
- Select the List body you want to change.
- Choose Spacing from the Format menu to open a dialogue box
where you can change the values for the space before and after each list item.
Click Custom to enable you to change the line spacing.
Adornment
- Select the List or Sub-list you want to adorn.
- Choose Borders from the Format menu to open a dialogue box
where you can specify the pattern and position of borders for the list and add
background colours or shades to the list.
or
- Select the List body you want to adorn.
- Choose Borders from the Format menu to open a dialogue box
where you can specify the pattern and position of borders and add background
colours or shade for each item in the list.
Bullet character
- Select the List or Sub-list you want to change.
- Choose Change from the Format menu. The following dialogue
box will appear where you can:

- Change the Typeface, Weight and Style used for the
bullet character from the pop-up menus.
- Edit the character used for the bullet or delete it if, for example, you
want to create a numbered list.
- Choose Auto-indentation to get EasiWriter to automatically tab from
the bullet character to the indentation marker.
Numbering lists
- Choose Auto number to number the list from 1.
or
- Choose Label and enter text and/or numbering commands.
For example 'item %1' gives item 1, item 2 etc. (%1) gives (i), (ii) and so on,
or
- Choose a numbering style from the pop-up menu.

See the section Automatic numbering for more details.
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