remove bullets in Mail

Proof Apple is going Microsoft. Apple is ignoring their quality interface design roots, and is ignoring their users. The age of this issue, how it's resistance spans multiple OS upgrades, are further proof and reason why my next pc will be a PC.

My solution is,

• to <CUT> entire line except final space - the invisible <cr> character.
• delete rest of line
• <PASTE> on a non-bulletted line.

Poop! Even this dialog box has the feature we're asking about!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just tried some buttons and whaddayaknow: Alt-Shift-Enter seems to work! You do have to do it on a bullet with an empty line! So for now that works ...

Is that it? - no help from Apple on this?

It is somewhat ridiculous that if you create a bullet, you can't get rid of it. This is really basic text editing stuff.

Sometimes I do wonder what is going on in Cupertino.

Can someone please advise on how to resolve this issue effectively and why with successive updates to the OS certain basic things don't get any better?

I'm having exactly the same issue, what a stupid option and can't be undone. What the **** is Apple doing??

Why would they put an option that isn't undoable?

BUT 😁 I did find a work-around, copy your email message into "TextEdit" then click on same drop down that created the bullets in the email and you will see an option of "none" remove the bullets and then re-copy the message back to the email.

Why Apple did it this way is anyones guess, Apple thinks it doesn't have to answer to anyone, kinda like Microsoft😢. APPLE START PAYING ATTENTION TO THE FOLKS THAT BUY YOUR PRODUCTS!😠

If I have to dig around to resolve stupid things then I may as well switch to Linux and not have to pay for software.

Highlite and delete.

Command-Z will also undo last command.

Good question!

There has to be an easier/better way... But you can select the list, convert it to Plain Text (Format menu) and then eliminate the bullets by your favorite method (just delete them, search and destroy, etc.). Then convert back to Rich Text.

charlie

This has been a longstanding pain and asked elswhere in various forms.

I've found no simple resolution to it other than:

1. to select and cut the text
2. click to a non-bulleted line
3. then cmd+shift+v OR "Edit > Paste and Match Style" in the menu

This will paste the text with that loctions style. (you will lose any specific style you had in the originally selected text)

I cannot for the life of me understand whay Apple wouldn't allow the 'Decrease List Level' function to apply toward 'decreasing' the list to 'nothing'. It seems like an elegant solution to a trade-off problem (you might want only one bullet for some reason)

You clearly encapsulate the frustration that I feel too. A useful

tip, thanks, but it's absurd when you have to go to these lengths to work around quirks in the software implementation.

Why would Apple do it this way and why would they keep doing it and are they listening?

Personally I do not find these quirks endearing, just a pain. Apple do really need to iron this stuff out now, there are many examples e.g. no arrows in edit, no drag and drop in iTunes etc.

When you make 100 billion you don't need to listen until that 100 billion disappears, by then its to late.....Microsoft...😊

Try "Control + Enter" instead of "Enter" at the end of the line. This does not bring the bullet over to the next line.

This does work but it does not solve the basic issue of when you create a piece of text with a bullet you just cant get rid of the bullet. All I want to do is to de-bullet a line - it seems next to impossible without lots of cutting and pasting

I am just sharing and learning along the way. Hope what I can think of helps.

How about copying the content with bullets, remove the last undesired bullet. Then do a "shift+option+command+v". Then "command+f", paste "• ", tick Replace, click "All".

Hope this give the result you are looking for. Go to the previous line of the line we hope to de-bullet and "Control + Enter". Then "Delete" once.