Keyboard shortcuts for bulleted & numbered lists?

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Keyboard shortcuts for bulleted & numbered lists?

Just made the move from the other operating system 🙂 and getting to grips with iWork.

One thing I'm really missing a lot is a keyboard shortcut for applying either bulleted or numbered lists. There wasn't one in Word either, but it was easy enough to assign.

I have managed to assign this function in the Mail application, but cannot find a way to do it in Pages. Surely I can't have to resort to clicking my mouse every time I want to bullet (or un-bullet) a list?

Obviously there's Option-8 to type a bullet by hand, but applying lists doesn't seem possible with the keyboard.

Any tips?

G

iMac 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Posted on Mar 6, 2008 5:24 AM

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Answer 1

DennisG

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Mar 6, 2008 7:16 AM in response to drfrot

dr,

If you go into Pages Preferences > Auto-correction, there's a check box next to Automatically Detect Lists. With that checked, all you have to do is type the number 1, and Pages will assume you're starting a list. I realize this isn't your perfect solution, but it's better than nothing.

-Dennis

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KOENIG Yvan

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Mar 6, 2008 10:39 AM in response to drfrot

Hello

My own tip:

I don't put the numbering when I type.
When I am ready to put it, I uses the non-contiguous selection tool to select the lines which must be numbered then I apply only once the numbering from the Text Inspector.

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE jeudi 6 mars 2008 19:39:37)

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Answer 3

muddymop

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Mar 6, 2008 5:46 PM in response to drfrot

You can do this by assigning a hot key to the style, actually. In the *Styles Drawer* (Shift-Command-T), mouse over any bulleted/numbered lists and click on the down-pointing triagle on the right. Select *Hot Key>(your preferred key)*.

The next time you want to apply the style, select the text, and press the assigned hot key and you will get the result you want. (If you're using MacBook/MacBook Pro, you'd need to press Fn with the hot key if you're assigning to prebuilt hot keys.)

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drfrot Author

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Mar 7, 2008 12:36 AM in response to muddymop

Genius! Thank you muddymop, that's a one keystroke solution instead of two, three or four!

🙂

Giles

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Answer 5

Mar 7, 2008 6:05 AM in response to drfrot

You don't have to do any of that. For numbered lists, just type '1.', then tab, then the text, then hit return. Pages recognises you're typing a list and goes to '2.' automatically. The same thing works for using '*' or '-' for bullets. Not sure how you get the little blob thing though.

If you want to indent further - ie have levels of lists - then hit tab after return and you'll go in a level. Good for outlining. (and shift tab takes you back up a level).

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Answer 6

Mar 27, 2008 8:07 PM in response to spinningdoc

Any idea how to keep a blank line between numbered paragraphs?
e.g.

1. blah blah blah

2. blah blah

3. blah

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Answer 7

rbaltman

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Jun 17, 2008 9:59 AM in response to DoctorFresh

Did you ever get an answer to this? It is very annoying, sometimes it recognizes that an extra space should not be labelled, but other times it doesn't. I suppose you could do this by changing the "after paragraph" spacing, but that is a pain when you just want some white space between numbered list items.

RBA

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Answer 8

rbaltman

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Jun 17, 2008 10:01 AM in response to rbaltman

OK, shame on me. It's in the documentation at:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Pages/3.0/en/c5pg60.html

"Press shift key while hitting return"

Not intuitively guessable, but it works.

RBA

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