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Subject:Numbered list vs bulleted list From:Mike Ingram <MIngram -at- SCIENTECH -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 19 Nov 1997 07:56:46 -0700
Don Timmerman posted this as an employee of a DOE contractor.
I do a lot of work for the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (a
Department of Energy facility). Their style guide states clearly: "Use
bullets when the order of the list is not important; use numbers when the
order or sequence is important."
Cheers!
Mike
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