Add Restart Numbering to right-click menu

[Gavin Anthony]

I would love to see "restart numbering" for lists added to the right-click menu. I know this menu can't include everything, but it would certainly help my workflow!

[fde101]

2 hours ago, Gavin Anthony said:

the right-click menu

Which one - the menu that appears when you right-click on what?

[Gavin Anthony]

20 hours ago, fde101 said:

Which one - the menu that appears when you right-click on what?

The menu that appears when I am editing text inside the text box—when I am in the middle of a list. Cheers!

[thomaso]

On 5/3/2019 at 10:47 AM, Gavin Anthony said:

when I am in the middle of a list

I guess that's the point. To make a list work automatically the application needs to know your needs and therefore needs more than 1 entry. Otherwise it might try to "repair" a number which you have deleted to jump willfully without telling the application.

The auto-numbering offers (and, therefore, needs) various settings:
– "Level"
– "Start Numbering at ..."
– "Restart Numbering ...(if...)"
– "Restart Numbering Now"

The right-click menu options would be quite complex and would need to force you to go to another window anyway – otherwise you would not need the auto-numbering feature at all. – So your requests sounds like "Open the Paragraph Panel with its section Bullets and Numbering" and for the menu it would read "Bullets and Numbering" to simply open the according panel.

 

[thomaso]

On 5/2/2019 at 11:11 AM, Gavin Anthony said:

"restart numbering"

Sorry, I have misread your request in my recent post (thought you want to type user-defined numbers).

Yes, "restart numbering now" could be a context menu item in lists. On the other hand I assume any list restart would also show a layout/formatting change, for instance an empty line (hard break). To achieve that you could use the setting "Restart Numbering: Any None List". That does restart numbering automatically.