Clicking the List icon reveals icons for creating bulleted, numbered, or check box paragraphs. Once you create a list, further icons appear: for setting bullet or number style; specifying outline level; “un-listing” or skipping one or more items inside a list; joining two lists; or splitting a list into two lists.
Click the Bulleted, Numbered, or Check icon to begin a bulleted, numbered, or check list. To apply numbering, bullets, or check boxes to existing paragraphs, highlight the text, then click the Numbered, Bulleted, or Check icon.
Note: You don't have to print a Buzzword document to check off an item in a list: anyone who can edit the document can click in a check box to update, for example, a shared list of tasks.
To end a list and return to unlabeled text with no additional indent, create a blank line, then click the appropriate List type icon, which is highlighted and acts as a toggle.
To undo an entire list, select the entire list and click the List type icon.
To turn the first or last item in the list into a paragraph that is part of the text, either put the cursor anywhere in the item and click the appropriate List type icon, or move the cursor to the beginning of the item and press Backspace (Windows) or Delete (Macintosh).
You can convert a range of list paragraphs to normal paragraphs if the range includes the first or last paragraph in the list. Simply select that range and click the highlighted List type icon.
The Level arrows promote or demote a paragraph within a list. Buzzword follows the normal outlining conventions. As you promote or demote an item, it takes on the appropriate numbering and indent settings.
When you work with bulleted lists, the Style icon provides a drop-down list of bullet styles. When you work with numbers, the Style icon provides a drop-down list of number styles.
If the number styles don’t provide the style you need, you can customize the numbering by selecting Custom... the last choice on the drop-down list. Using this command, you can specify text to place before and after the number. You can also specify the starting value for the list. A preview pane shows you the result.
You can create a list that includes items that are not numbered, bulleted, or preceded by a check box, but that have the same indent as the list items.
With your cursor in the item that you want to change, click the Skip icon.
To restore a bullet, number or check box to an unlabeled paragraph in a bulleted, numbered, or check list, place the cursor in that paragraph and click the Skip icon again. Each click of the Skip icon toggles between skipped and restored labeling.
The Skip icon indicates whether the current item in the list is included in the sequence:
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Indicates that the current paragraph has skip labeling (bullet, number, or check box) set to on. The paragraph is not labeled. |
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Indicates that the current paragraph has skip labeling set to off. The paragraph is labeled with a bullet, number, or check box. |
The Continue List and New List icons allow you to join two lists into a single list, or to break a single list into two separate lists.
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Continue List is available when the cursor is in the first entry in a list. It links the current list with a preceding list. If there are paragraphs between the joined lists, they are included in the list but are not numbered or bulleted, as if the Skip icon had been clicked for them. |
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New List is available within a list. It breaks the current list into two separate lists. The current paragraph becomes the first entry in the next list. |
Note: The Continue List and New List icons effectively cancel each other. When you click the New List icon within a numbered or bulleted list, Buzzword treats the current paragraph as the first entry in a new list. From this position, clicking the Continue List icon joins the current list to the previous list.
Buzzword provides flexibility in building lists with both numbers and bullets. Every entry at the same level of a list must share the same bullet, number, or check style, but in a list with more than one level you can use bullets at one level, numbers at another, and checks at a third.