RE: Value of giving up numbering in Word?

["Leonard C. Porrello" <Leonard -dot- Porrello -at- SoleraTec -dot- com>]

A strange analogy. I doubt the third step in a sequence will have a hard
time in life or feel neglected if I fail to assign it (or would you
perhaps say "him?) a number. Do you really ascribe each step in a
procedure the same ontological value as a child?

As I said in my first post, procedures are denoted by a unique bullet
style (an arrow in my case). Unordered lists are denoted by a simple
round bullet. It's not terribly complicated. It is not confusing.

Leonard C. Porrello
SoleraTec LLC
www.soleratec.com
 

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On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:19 PM, Leonard C. Porrello <
Leonard -dot- Porrello -at- soleratec -dot- com> wrote:

> Good question. Perhaps "add little or arguably nothing to _my docs_"
> would have been better than add "absolutely nothing."
>
> But I am not saying that numbering is always unnecessary. My
procedures
> are short enough to not require numbers. Yours, obviously, are more
> complex and require numbers. I am big fan of dogma only when it comes
to
> religion. Otherwise, I prefer responding to the exigency.


Apparently we seem to believe that numbering only serves to keep track
of
long procedures. That's almost like saying, If I have a dozen kids, I'll
need names to address them. With just two or three kids I can just refer
to
them by gender or size.


>
>
> In response to Dan, the primary auto number problems I have have to do
> with single sourcing. Help & Manual doesn't support renumbering of
> embedded topics. And, last I checked, it doesn't pick up auto
numbering
> from where it left off if there is an intervening graphic or style.
>
> So, I can drop single sourcing and manually number steps that arguably
> gain nothing from numbering, or I can spend my time improving the docs
> in other ways. If numbering--in my docs--was necessary or I had an
> infinite amount of time (and had nothing better to do with it than to
> number lists that don't require numbering), I would use numbering.
>
>
So how do you distinguish between the ordered and unordered lists in
your
document?

Edwin

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