Unit- Word Processing using Open Office Writer(Part-IV) Class IX (IT 402)

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CREATING NUMBERED OR BULLETED LISTS-

Method-1
In the Formatting toolbar, click the Numbering/ Bullets icon. You will
see that the bullets appear at the beginning of each of the sentences.
You can select a bullet shape from here.

Method-2
In the Properties window, you can click on Paragraph options and find
Numbering/Bullets there too. Click on the small triangle to the right of the
icon to select a bullet or numbering formatting option from a drop‑ down
list.
Clicking on More Options at the bottom of these drop-down lists open the
Bullets and Numbering dialog.

Method-3
Goto Format menu->Click on Bullets & Numbering. The dialog box will appear.

(If you want to start a new line without adding another bullet or number, hold down the SHIFT key
while pressing ENTER.)

Changing the style of entries

1. Select the entire list or click on the gray border of the text box so that just the green resizing
handles are displayed.
2. Select Format > Bullets and Numbering or click on the Bullets and Numbering icon.
3. The Bullets and Numbering dialog box contains five tabs: Bullets, Numbering type, Graphics,
Position, and Customize.
○ If a bulleted list is needed, select the desired bullet style from the six default styles available on
the Bullets page.
○ If a graphics style is needed, select one from those available on the Graphics page.
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○ If a numbered list is needed, select one of the 6 default numbering styles on the Numbering
type page.
Formatting Options-
In the dialog box, click on ‘Options’ tab to format various levels of
the list like selecting the numbering style, symbols to be added
before and after, deciding the number from which list should start
etc.

Nested/ Multi- level Lists-

A list inside another list is called a nested list. A nested list is

a numbered or bulleted list with subordinate (usually indented) numbered or bulleted lists. Rather
than just a list of numbered items (1,2,3...), a nested list may have item 1, then indented items
numbered a,b,c or i,ii,iii or some other numbering method before the main number 2. With
numbering styles you can achieve any combination of numbering formats you want.we will use
outline-numbering to produce the following effect:
I. Level-1 list item
A. Level-2 list item

i. Level-3 list item

a) Level-4 list item

Bullets & Numbering Toolbar

1 Bullets On/Off 8 Insert Unnumbered Entry

2 Numbering On/Off 9 Move Up

3 Numbering Off 10 Move Down

4 Up One Level 11 Move Up with Subpoints

5 Down One Level 12 Move Down with Subpoints

6 Move Up (One Level) with Subpoints 13 Restart Numbering

7 Move Down (One Level) with 14 Bullets and Numbering

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Subpoints

Changing the order or the outline level lines

Click once in a line of text to place the cursor in it, then click on the Outline tab (to the right of the
Normal tab) in the Workspace and use the Promote/Demote buttons in the Text Formatting toolbar
to move the text to the appropriate position and give it the appropriate outline level.

The button with the arrow pointing left promotes the list entry by one level (for
example from Outline 3 to Outline 2), the right arrow button demotes the list entry by one level,
the up and down arrow buttons move the list entry. Numbering adjusts automatically.
You can also use the Tab key and Shift + Tab keys to promote and demote the
outline level of a line in a list.

PRACTICAL EXERCISE FOR SELF PRACTICE-