Lists Driving Me Crazy!
I am trying to use automatic lists in Pages '09. I want a list that looks like this (the indents on the a, b, c don't show up in this message but are there in Pages):
1. Title 1
a. one
b. two
c. three
2. Title 2
a. one
b. two
c. three
But, when I use the tab key to indent to the next level after the numeric titles, I get:
1. Title 1
a. one
b. two
c. three
2. Title 2
b. one
c. two
d. three
The next block starts with a "c.". What am I doing wrong? I want each sub-level to start with "a.".
Message was edited by: mwfanelli
PeterBreis0807 wrote:
mwfanelli
Sounds to me like you have a stray character in there other than the straight returns and tabs.
+Menu > View > Invisibles+
Nothing odd or out of the way.
Clean up any unnecessary spaces etc. then select the entire list text, including the last paragraph return, +double click+ the None List style in the Styles Drawer, and reapply your list style.
Yeah, this works but I have to do this each and every time I need a decent list. That's hardly "automatic"! I shut off the automatic stuff and now do everything manually.
For constructing List styles:
http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewtopic.php?t=139&mforum=iworktips ntrick
Thanks but it's not the list styles, it's the application of those styles that is at fault.
Oh well, I'll use the manual method of making lists for this week or use Office 2008 on the library Mac. Next week, I'll be getting Office 2008 again from the site license at the school. Really, this has to be the silliest auto formatting I have ever seen in a word processor!
Thank you for taking the time to help.
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When I imported the archived files, it created new mailboxes but DID NOT reinstall my mail in it's corresponding email account file (i.e: i have an email account for incoming mail with "username", and then far below I have a mailbox (for EACH account, and I have about 7) which contains all my old mail. I can't seem to merge the two.
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I am not trying to sync two computers (Tiger/Leopard). The Leopard comment was just me venting that it was so much a better program than Tiger....
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This whole thing came about because when I tried to import my old mailboxes (pre-formatting my mac) they imported as separate folders whereas I wanted them to merge into their respective accounts.
The other issue I had (originally) which led to this mess is that none of my Gmail accounts would SEND mail (receiving is Ok) so I followed the online IMAP instructions and this is where I got triplets....
Gosh, I don't know how else to explain it... If it's still not clear perhaps I should just erase everything and start from scratch??
Thanks again,
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