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I guess I haven't been paying much attention to this thread. When you
talk about "indenting bullets," do you mean:
X This is an indented bulleted list, and as you can see all
the text lines up neatly under the previous line (if you're
using a non-proportional font, anyway).
X This is a non-indented bulleted list, and as you can see the text
does not line up under the previous line but instead wraps around as if
it were a paragraph or something.
If so, I thought the first example was the standard and the second was
what people did when they didn't know any better. Shows how much I
know...
> I would recommend that you not indent bullets. The bullets already offset
> text to the right, why push it farther to the right?
For clarification. Bullets are supposed to be little bites of
information. Why make them look like big old paragraphs instead of the
distinct list items they are?
> By taking up extra
> space, indenting the bullets could add pages to your document.
A longer, well-laid out document that makes good use of white space is
better than a short document that doesn't use white space to its
advantage.
Tracy
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Tracy Boyington tracy_boyington -at- okvotech -dot- org
Oklahoma Department of Vocational and Technical Education
Stillwater, OK, USA http://www.okvotech.org/cimc/home.htm
!!! Nov. 8, 1997: OSU 30, OU 7 !!!
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