Place a list inside of sentence?

[Anthony Ercolano]

Word 2004

I would like to write a sentence like:

"Keeping a (dog, cat, wombat) as a pet can be fun!"

However, what I would like to do is have dog cat wombat be in a
vertical list so that dog is above cat which is above wombat. I would
like these list items to be preceeded by a left brace (that adjusts to
the number of elements in the list).

I imagine that I could to something with superscrips and subscripts,
but I'm wondering if there is something "better".

Thank you for you thoughts,
Tony

 

[Peter Jamieson]

You can consider using the equation editor. Or you can try its predecessor
which can be easier to use once you get the hang of it.

You can insert an EQ field, e.g. using Insert|Field

Keeping a { EQ \b \lc\( \rc\ (\a \al(dog,cat,wombat))} as a pet can be fun!

\b says "bracket the rest of the stuff"
\lc\( says "use a ( for the left brace"
\rc\ says"use a space for the right brace"
( ...) says what's inside the braces
\a says "insert an array
\al says "align the array elements to the left
() says what's inside the array

However, the default positioning of the left brace on Mac doesn't seem quite
as good as it does in WinWord. Perhaps something to do with line spacing.

Peter Jamieson

 

[Anthony Ercolano]

Absolutely what I was looking for.

Thank you so much for your time.

Tony

 

[sabino]

Peter & Tony -

you could also accomplish the same result by typing the sentence, when you
get to the items to be listed vertically just hit Return (paragraph & line
break) or better Shift-Return (line break only) for each list item. Use
separate Tab or Indent settings for these vertical lines as desired. For the
adjustable brackets, go to View -> Toolbars -> Drawing -> Basic Shapes
select the desired line or brackets and use the cursor to insert into doc.
These elements can be resized and positioned manually as desired on the page.