Text Formatting ⇒ Problem with customized enumerating

[Jamwa]

I would like to enumerate with (a), (b), (c)... instead of the default 1, 2, 3...

So I have this snippet:

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\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\title{\author{}}
\date{}
\begin{document}

\maketitle

\section{Start Here}

The core functions of the Division are as follows:

\begin{enumerate}[(a)]
\item Advising the Director-General
\end{enumerate}

\end{document}

Which does not compile but throws an error:

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sh-4.2$ latex error.tex 
This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
 %&-line parsing enabled.
entering extended mode
(./error.tex
LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
Babel <v3.8h> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, noh
yphenation, arabic, basque, bulgarian, coptic, welsh, czech, slovak, german, ng
erman, danish, esperanto, spanish, catalan, galician, estonian, farsi, finnish,
 french, greek, monogreek, ancientgreek, croatian, hungarian, interlingua, ibyc
us, indonesian, icelandic, italian, latin, mongolian, dutch, norsk, polish, por
tuguese, pinyin, romanian, russian, slovenian, uppersorbian, serbian, swedish, 
turkish, ukenglish, ukrainian, loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size11.clo)) (./error.aux)

! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...                                              
                                                  
l.13 \item A
            dvising the Director-General
? 

What am I doing wrong please?

[hugovdberg]

First of all, you should enclose these large parts of code in code-tags, not inline latex. That gives nicer colors.
Second of all, enumerate cannot be customised like that without using the enumitem package. That uses a little different syntax than you use there (that's the enumerate-syntax) but it's preferred over the latter package. The documentation gives all information you need, but your example would look something like this if you want to change all your enumerate lists:

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\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\setlist[enumerate]{
   label={(\alph*)}
}
\begin{document}
\begin{enumerate}
\item Advising the Director-General
\end{enumerate}
\end{document}

or, if it's only one list you want to customise:

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\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}

\begin{document}
\begin{enumerate}[label=(\alph*)]
\item Advising the Director-General
\end{enumerate}
\end{document}

[Jamwa]

Oh, wonderful! Thank you. I have been struggling with this