Control-click not working in Stickies for Mac

Welcome!

Do your see the "List..." option when you control-click? I can see it in Mojave which has the same instructions for formatting as Catalina:

In the example, however, the bullet points were already present when I pasted the list of serial numbers from an ASC post to Stickies.

OK, some enlightenment....

I just ran a quick test with three newly-created test lists: a list using plain text; a list with manually-inserted item numbers; and a list with manually-inserted bullet points. In none of these did the "List.."option appear on control-clicking or right-clicking.

So it seems to work only with lists previously formatted in a different app.

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kdmarks:

As per that document:

Add a list to a note

In the Stickies app  on your Mac, do any of the following:

• Add a list: Press Option-Tab, enter your first item, then press Return.
• End a list (and add a regular paragraph): Click at the end of the last list item, then press Return twice.
• Increase list level: Click a line in the list, then press Tab.
• Decrease list level: Click a line in the list, then press Shift-Tab.
• Format a list: Control-click in the list, then choose List. You can change the bullet type.

This suggests that the "Control-click in the list" is to change the list formatting, as Allan Jones noted.

As I recall, kdmarks, you were attempting to apply the control-click operation to something that wasn't, yet, a List, as far as the Stickies app is concerned.

Am I wrong?

What you wanted was to convert some lines of text into a List, within the Stickies app. Am I not correct?

If the "List..." option does not appear on control-click with a truly "already formatted [List] in Stickies", then there does appear to be a problem, kdmarks.

I am assuming that control-clicks function properly, within Stickies, for other operations.

If not, then there is something else "amiss".