On Tuesday, April 19, 2011, Dan Lewis <[email protected]> wrote: > Jean Weber wrote: > > On Tuesday, April 19, 2011, Dan Lewis<[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm working on Chapter 1 of the Base Guide changing it to the 3.3 > template and changing the front page graphics. I used the template extension > to apply the template already. > Recently after following instructions on anchoring graphics and what > paragraph styles to use, I decided my first task in this chapter is to apply > the appropriate styles to the figures in this chapter. > As I looked through the figures, I noticed that the numbering of the > figures were not accurate. Furthermore, every time after using OOoHeading1, > the figure number reset to Figure 1. > As a test, open a new document using the 3.3 template. Then I created > two frames with numbered captions with a line style of OOoTextBody between > the frames. They were in consecutive order. When I changed the text style for > the line between the frames from OOoTextBody to OOoHeading 1, the bottom > frame's numbered captions changed from Figure 2 to Figure 1. The other > heading styles do not seem to affect the captioning numbering. > Anyone have any ideas as to why this might be happening? I'm using the OOo3.3 > on Ubuntu 10.4 LTS 64 bit. The OOo is from the OOo website. > > Dan > -- > > > The most likely cause is a problem in the outline numbering. Check > Tool> outline numbering. --Jean > > > I found my problem and solved it. It was in the Tools > Options > > OpenOffice.org Writer > AutoCaption. Specifically, the problem lie in the > "Numbering captions by chapters" Level dropdown list. I set the level to 1 > (or it was set to 1 as the default). I have set it to None. The numbering > seems to be back to what it should have been in the first place. > > Dan > -- > --------------------------------------
Glad you found it. I was misremembering where that setting was located. I've had no problem with the template so it may be a user setting that is overriding the template or... Who knows? --Jean -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] For additional commands send email to [email protected] with Subject: help
