Thanks TJ I saw that & will try it today. Sounds like a good trick. I have several hidden fields & paras in the template so adding this one should do the job.
I was going to copy the workaround into a note to the list but my Internet is down today so I'm doing email on the phone. -- Jean On Friday, January 22, 2010, TJ Frazier <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/19/2010 18:29, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > > This issue has been around for awhile. I thought it had been fixed at > one point, but it has not been working in recent releases. It affects > the compilation of our user guides, requiring a lot of manual checking > and fixing of numbered lists. > > The basic issue is that when CUSTOM numbering styles are used for lists, > the first item in the first list in a file does not retain a "restart at > 1" setting when the file is saved. When files are used standalone, this > isn't a problem, but when they are combined (as in a master document), > the first list in each chapter continues numbering from the last list in > the previous chapter and must be manually changed. > > We really need this fixed, so please vote. > > http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=51519 > > BTW, this is only one of a series of issues related to to the use of > custom styles, several of which cause us hassles. > > --Jean > > > > Jean, > There is a clever, "dirty" workaround newly posted on the issue. It occurs to > me that you might be able to use something similar in the master doc itself, > in text sections between the links, which would be much faster and easier. > HTH, > -- > /tj/ > >
