Adding a "normal" square check box as a Pages 09 bullet?

You have not defined what is a "normal", non "Artsy" check box, but I assume you want a plain square.

There are a few things you can do:

+Menu > Edit > Special Characters… > Miscellaneous > ☐ (Ballot Box)+

or create one in a drawing application and add it to your lists with:

+Inspector > Text (T) > List > Bullets & Numbering > Custom Image… > Open > Locate and open to add+

or draw a box in Pages and use that as a pasted inline graphic.

Peter

We may change the text bullets but it requires a bit of surgery.
Create a document with several list items to wich you apply the different standard text bullets.

Entering the internals of the document to reveal the Index.xml file.
Open this one.
Edit one or several standard bullet descriptors by new ones and you will have new embedded bullets.
It's a bit clumsy but it works as you may see here.



The main problem is that these bullet will not be reachable thru the standard menu.
You will have to apply copy style / paste style.

I described the tip.
Now it's you are free to use it or don't 😉

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE jeudi 23 avril 2009 18:03:28)

The changes are in the document, not in the program.

When the program will open this hacked document, it will grab the xml instruction as is.
If the syntax is modified as it was from Numbers '08 to Numbers '09, the keywords will change but not the contents.
Its the beauty of XML 😉

I wish to add that I posted this hack because it is not machine dependent.
If you apply it on your machine, the document will behave the same if you open it on an other system.
I would not did that if the document was OK only on its source machine. Not sure of my syntax but I think that you may understand. You may re-phrase it if it's really too odd).

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE vendredi 24 avril 2009 11:23:27)

The changes are in the document, not in the program.

When the program will open this hacked document, it will grab the xml instruction as is.
If the syntax is modified as it was from Numbers '08 to Numbers '09, the keywords will change but not the contents.
Its the beauty of XML 😉

I wish to add that I posted this hack because it is not machine dependent.
If you apply it on your machine, the document will behave the same if you open it on an other system.
I would not did that if the document was OK only on its source machine. Not sure of my syntax but I think that you may understand. You may re-phrase it if it's really too odd).

Second addition.
As you saw, there are nine predefined bullets.
If you edit the embedded descriptors you may have nine + nine different bullets. But you may also edit already edited descriptors.
So, if you want to build a really ugly document you may use a huge number of different bullets (Pandora's box is open).

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE vendredi 24 avril 2009 11:23:27)

No need to wait for an other track.

The list of bullets used by the program is defined in a file which we can't edit so we will have to live with them and my workaround as long as the program is designed this way.

_Go to "Provide Pages Feedback" in the "Pages" menu_, describe what you wish.
Then, cross your fingers, and wait _at least_ for iWork'10 😉

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE samedi 25 avril 2009 13:21:57)

Unless you need the check box to be a bullet in a List, you can set it up in Auto-Correction. Find a box you like in the Character Palette and in Pages Preferences>Auto-Correction define a couple of keystrokes to be changed to your box. I use left bracket followed by right bracket (without a space in between) to produce ❏.

Walt

Message was edited by: Walt K

Yvan,

The question is do hacks like this survive the next upgrade?

Apple should add an option to select any character as a bullet in the Inspector. As happens in other applications.

Peter

As you said Yvan, "It's a bit clumsy but it works".

Peter