Removing Numbering from Lists

[srd]

OneNote has a way to apply numbers to any or all of five outline levels,
but how do you remove them?

Stephen R. Diamond

 

[srd]

OneNote has a way to apply numbers to any or all of five outline levels,
but how do you remove them?

Well, here's one way, if I may carry on a solilloquy: Copy the numbered
paragraphs and paste into Word. Word imports it as a numbered list. Within
Word turn of list numbering.

There should be an easier way. That's feature suggestion NUMBER 1.

Now for feature suggestion NUMBER 2: There should be a way to export to
Word so that what are presently list elements are instead interpreted by
Word as headings. OneNote's outliner uses the heading/'body text'
metaphor, derived from Word. And list elements are body text, so its
contrary must be headings! You kind of violated your own metaphor ("you"
being MS); you should at least provide the option to consistently
implement the metaphor.

By the way, the embedded outliner is one of OneNote's strongest features,
but it needs debugging. The bugs don't cause you to crash or anything, and
their boundaries are hard to delineate without more effort. (And why
should I apply effort, when MS is about to charge its beta testing public
for the privilege of using software MS says isn't fit for actual use.) The
overall effect is that considerable repair work is required to put an
outline into proper shape. The problem, nevertheless, may be limited to
this: Headings do not always obey the user regarding placement as indented
headings versus body text. The outliner seems to "prefer" headings, and
only by repeated efforts will the user be able to get each of many body
text items inserted as body text and not as headings.

(Then there's this weird thing with OneNote wanting to apply numbers to
body text paragraphs within a hierarchical list. Maybe for another time.)

Stephen R. Diamond

 

[Erik Sojka (MVP)]

Or you can just click on the Numbering button on the Toolbar. That
removes the numbering.

 

[srdiamond]

Or you can just click on the Numbering button on the Toolbar. That
removes the numbering.

Ah yes, I see that it does, just like in Word. So why didn't it work that
way in the instance I reported. It seems this is the reason. My outline had
two blank paragraphs above it. When I clicked on the top edge of the
container (does it have a name?) with the outline in it, the two top
paragraphs were selected, and when they are selected, the ability to toggle
numbering departs.

Unless there's a mysterious valid purpose for this behavior, I think it a
bug. Instead of the current behavior, the empty paragraphs should get
numbers, so that I can be apprised of their existence and remove them
forthwith.

Stephen R. Diamond

 

[Erik Sojka (MVP)]

I just tried to recreate what you described in both Word and OneNote
(2007 B2 in both cases) and I do see the behavior difference you describe
when multiple lines of blank and numbered text are selected.

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