Setting list item gaps in Microsoft OneNote (AutoHotKey script)
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| by Julian Knight Reading time ~2 min.
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Although I like Microsoft OneNote and use it continuously, it does have a few failings. One of these is the inability to set the default styles and layout for text. In particular, when you create a new paragraph or list entry in OneNote, the default – non-changeable – setting is to have no white space between the paragraphs. This is very poor design and makes more than a small amount of text quite unreadable. I’ve raised this with Microsoft but who knows if or when it might be sorted. In the mean time, I need a far quicker way of changing this. Currently, I’ve had to:
- Select the container with the text I want to format
- Use the menu to show the List Task Pane ([alt]o/L)
- Mouse click on the text box to change (you cannot tab into it)
- Change the 0.00 pt default to something like the 6.00 pt that I prefer
- Close the List Task Pane Not nice! Having determined that there is nothing clever that can be done in OneNote, I decided that the old standy “AutoHotKey” would be useful. So I’ve created a script for AutoHotKey that will change the inter-list gap for the currently selected container.
OK, so it’s a bit rough-and-ready but it does save a whole lot of time. I’ve got this in my default AHK script so it is loaded whenever I log in and is activated with [win]z.
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