My Biggest Complaint About Bullet Lists, Outline Styles And My Co-Workers Who Don’t Know How To Use Them

I must spend 10 minutes a day on average correcting my co-workers bullet list and outline formatting errors.

This is partly the fault of my co-workers but I think it’s primarily the fault of software developers who can’t seem to get bullet list styles or outline styles to be the same from program to program. A bullet list or outline doesn’t work in Word the same way it does in WordPerfect which doesn’t work the same way it does OpenOffice. There is no industry standard for bullet list or outline interfaces. Everybody can get a paragraph to work the same way, why can’t they get bullet list and outlines to do the same thing.

That part is on the software engineers, now for those from whom I may catch crap - my co-workers. Everyone needs to take 10 minutes and figure out how to use a bullet list or outline correctly in whatever program you are using. To those who remember typing documents on typewriters, bullet list and outline style formatting might be a new concept, but one we need to embrace 20 years after we stopped using the typewriters.