On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 18:35 +1300, Morgan Read wrote: > Hi, > > All I want to do is set the default bullet style (or numbering style for > that matter) to something other than what occupies the top-left pane in > "Format -> Bullets and Numbering..." under the Bullets tab. Not much, ha? > > In particular I'd like to set the default to the chunky dot next to the > (default) pointy dot. So that, when I hit Shift+F12 or the Bullet button on > the Format bar I get a nice chunky dot rather than an horrid pointy one:) > > The only way I seem to be able use any other of the six bullet options (and > btw, how do I change those six?) is to go through the "Format -> Bullets and > Numbering... -> Bullets tab" dialogue, which is a right royal pita. > > I've been using OOo for a few years now (since .625, I'm on OOo1.9.125 now) > and I'm sure I've solved this once, twice, how ever many times..., but it > seems to be a reoccurring problem. Can someone tell me what to set to fix > this once and for all! > > Thanks all, > M.
Hi Morgan, First it's a good idea to work through the stylist for doing this sort of thing. So these instructions assume that you're doing that. In stylist click on the list styles tab. This gives you the standard 8 or so bullet and numbered list styles. Right click in the body of stylist and click "new" Give your style a name. I usually create my personal styles with a hyphen as the first character such as: -mystyle. This puts my own styles at the top of the list. Set up your bullets however you want in the dialog window. Now save the blank document as an OTT, say mydefault.ott Go to the file menu>templates>organise In the "Template Management" window's left hand column, click "template" then from the "command" dropdown menu click "import" Navigate to wherever you save mydefault.ott, select and click "open" "mydefault.ott" will now appear under template in the lefthand column. Highlight "mydefault.ott and in the "commands" menu click "Set as default template" Close the document. Now when you open a new Writer instance it will launch your template as the default and in the stylist panel you will see -mystyle listed. Start a list- Double click -mystyle in the stylist window and there are your bullets. HTH -- Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html mob: 027 494 4315 Opendocument fellowship http://www.opendocumentfellowship.org INGOTs Assessor Trainer (International Grades in Office Technologies) www.theingots.org Blog: yorick.edublogs.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
