How do I change labels of the enumerate environment?

The standard setup of enumerate does not use a) labelling -- it's 1. etc.

There are basically three possibilities to do achieve the 1) style:

• Reformat the counter output for the label
• Use enumitem package and its label=... option to the environment
• Use enumerate package and say begin{enumerate}[1)]....

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A enumitem quick and dirty solution ....

documentclass{article}

usepackage{enumitem}

begin{document}

begin{enumerate}
item This
item is
item the
item traditional 
item labelling
end{enumerate}

begin{enumerate}[label={arabic*)}]
item This 
item is 
item another
item way
item of 
item labelling
end{enumerate}


end{document}

Basically the same can be achieved with (watch the different label separations/indentations!) enumerate package:

documentclass{article}


usepackage{enumerate}

begin{document}


begin{enumerate}
item This
item is
item the
item traditional 
item labelling
end{enumerate}

begin{enumerate}[1)]
item This 
item is 
item another
item way
item of 
item labelling
end{enumerate}


end{document}