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Lists
Lists let us present complex information in a succinct and easy to understand way. They are best when used with restraint and without too many items. There are two basic styles available, a simple bullet list and a numbered list.
By using the font styling techniques outlined elsewhere you can make text bold, italic or both, to add more flavour and variety to the styles. You are also able to add links, and references to items in lists. See their respective listing for details of how to do this.
Standard Unordered List
- Suicide is the HIGHEST CAUSE of death for young men (2008)
- Suicide accounts for 1 in 5 deaths in men aged between 25 and 44 (2008).
- Men are twice as likely as women to have substance abuse problems.
- This line is bold
To use this style, format your text like this:
- Put dashes before each list item
TIP: This is an example of a basic bullet point list, though note how you can make text bold.
Bold Unordered List
- Suicide is the HIGHEST CAUSE of death for young men (2008)
- Suicide accounts for 1 in 5 deaths in men aged between 25 and 44 (2008).
- Men are twice as likely as women to have substance abuse problems.
- This line is bold
To use this style, format your text like this:
- **Put dashes before each list item and wrap the list item in a pair of double asterisks**
TIP: This is the same list as above, but with a bold style applied throughout.
Standard Ordered List
- 1 in 2 Australian men will have cancer by the time they are 85.
- At any one time, 1 in 8 men are experiencing clinical depression.
- Over half of all Australian men have experienced some sort of mental health condition during their lifetime. Sometimes the content can be quite long.
- Or very short!
- This item is bold. It must be very important.
To use this style, format your text like this:
1. Put numbers before each list item
TIP: This is an example of a numbered list which like the lists above can be modified to display italic and /or bold styles if need be.