RE: Value of giving up numbering in Word?

["Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leonard C. Porrello
> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 5:20 PM
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: RE: Value of giving up numbering in Word?
> 
> Really? You've got to be kidding me. I never said 
> or implied that I don't see the value of those 
> semantics. To the contrary, I said, "I am not 
> saying that numbering is always unnecessary." 
> Along with that, isn't it obvious I rely on the 
> fact that the semantics Dan implied are 
> inescapable? Because English is read from left to 
> right, top to bottom, you could present Dan's 
> list stripped of all antecedents, and it would be 
> no less clear:
> 
> Pick up the dry cleaning.
> Drop off Mr. Webster's suit at the lecture hall.
> Go around the back of the lecture hall and look 
> for the box that Mr. Roget left there, and put 
> it in the car.
> Drop the box at Mr. White's house, and pick up 
> the frozen turkey he's got waiting for me...
> 

I posted this as an example of a list that doesn't *need* numbers.

Sometimes, the client/customer/boss wants it numbered anyway -- and also
automated, so they can add twenty items in the middle and still have the
last item numbered correctly. If the software I'm using can't do that
for me pretty easily, then I'll look for other software.



































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