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Lists

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:

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:

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.

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2 Double-click on the indentation marker and edit its value.

Text

  1. Select the List or Sub-list you want to change
  2. Choose Font, Colour, Country or Case from the Text menu to change the text attributes of the list.

Spacing before and after the list

  1. Select the List or Sub-list you want to change.
  2. 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

  1. Select the List body you want to change.
  2. 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

  1. Select the List or Sub-list you want to adorn.
  2. 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

  1. Select the List body you want to adorn.
  2. 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

  1. Select the List or Sub-list you want to change.
  2. Choose Change from the Format menu. The following dialogue box will appear where you can:

Numbering lists

See the section Automatic numbering for more details.


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