Difficulties with lists - Post ID 248698

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For convenience I keep lists of links I've found useful in a local (i.e. on my own hard drive) website, and to gain experience with RSD I decided to create a responsive local website with these links, using the Ordered List element. Each of the web pages has 3 such lists of about 20 items. Two matters arise which I don't recall seeing mentioned in this forum.

1. Changing the number of items in a list seems to need great care, and I suggest that the Amount of Elements box in the Design tab do not allow one to enter a number, but only to increase or decrease the number via the arrows. Having carefully edited 20 items in a list (ensuring that the Finish button is clicked following each edit), and deciding one needs 3 more, one can be tempted simply to type in 23. One does not make this mistake twice, as one finds that typing the initial figure 2 of the 23 wipes out the careful editing of 18 of the items in the list! When one completes the entry of 23, one indeed has a list of 23 items, but all except the first 2 are back to pseudo Latin!

2. Sometimes attempting to increase the number of list items (in an edited list as above) using the up arrow has failed: the extra list items have appeared for a fraction of a second, and then disappeared. Even worse, attempting to save the RSD file with a view to closing and restarting the program has not rescued the situation, but on at least two occasions has destroyed my editing of all the items in that list.

If I'm going about the use of such lists incorrectly, do please let me know. If some change to the program is needed for these matters, I look forward to those changes eagerly, as the above experiences have been painful.

Many thanks.

Frank
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I use copy and paste.:)
I can't hear what I'm looking at.
It's easy to overlook something you're not looking for.

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Thankyou.

That indeed works reliably, as does clicking the Duplicate button when a list item is selected. Editing the Amount of Elements box (when the Ordered List is selected) after one has started editing list items is certainly something I intend to avoid in future.

Thanks again.

Frank

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