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Re: Tables inside numbered lists

Subject: Re: Tables inside numbered lists
From: Al Geist <al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 09:28:36 -0500

Robert_Johnson -at- percussion -dot- com wrote:

I've read all the other responses, and it seems to me that others have overlooked the real logic here. If the project manager really wants sequential numbering, the correct way to number the steps would be:

6. Continue with the following:
----------------------------------------------------------
| To... | Do this... |
----------------------------------------------------------
| Some action | 7. Some step |
----------------------------------------------------------
| Some action | 8. Step one |
| | 9. Step two |
| | 10. Step three |
----------------------------------------------------------
| Some action | 11. Some step |
----------------------------------------------------------
12. Next step.



To me, imbedding the steps within a table makes them subordinate. If I were looking at a page laid out in this manner, I would see Step 6 followed by Step 12, and then have to go back to see that steps 7-11 are imbedded in the table. I'm for relabeling those steps alphabetically, or redoing the whole procedure to eliminate the tables.

Al


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