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Subject:Re: Bulleted lists... Is there a limit? From:Karen Kay <karen -at- WORDWRITE -dot- COM> Date:Sun, 27 Jul 1997 20:24:14 -0700
In article <3 -dot- 0 -dot- 3 -dot- 32 -dot- 19970725205727 -dot- 00716664 -at- mailhost -dot- cyberramp -dot- net> you wrote:
> At 12:36 PM 7/25/97 EST, DWeber wrote:
> > What is the maximum amount of items acceptable in a bulleted list? Is
> > there a definite answer? My interviewer thought so.
>
> The rule of thumb is seven, plus or minus two items in a list.
So what should you do if you have 11 or 12 items? I'm facing a
document with this now. It really seems like the list is too long, but
each item is about two lines, and there's really no other obvious way
to include the information.
Karen
karen -at- wordwrite -dot- com
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