Hi

I'm unhappy with the way Listing/Numbering works in Writing-Software including 
the Oo Writer. I have a suggestion to make it work easier for amatuer users / 
ungeek persons. I think the system as it is, is unintuitive and needs a lot of 
fumbling to get it the way you want. Every person I ask about it who isn't an 
IT specialist would agree with me on that one. ( Just watched the department 
head of research and development of our company get really frustrated with MS 
Office while trying to get the numbering in a document right )
Example:

1.1 headline

text text text
lot of text
spreadsheet
text text 

1.2 headline

text text text


to make the headlines 1.1 and 1.2 look the same takes me forever, if you don't 
get the right order pressing "enter" it takes even longer, because then the 
numbering has a different size than the headline and stuff like that, so you 
have to start over. I bet that it is possible to pre configure these things ( 
putting some 10 minutes in it though) but it should be more intuitive, avaible 
off the start and I don't want to take time read the manual of a writing 
software, no time for that, rtfm my a.. , no offense.
I want to include numbering in an easy way WHILE writing not edit it AFTERWARDS 
or BEFORE writing.

Solution: If a numbering is entered a dialog should pop up asking the user to 
what other headline this numbering should become connected to or if it should 
start a new numbering or if numbering should be turned off in the whole for 
this document. If the user picks "connect to this (user should just click the 
appropriate headline at this moment) headline" the writer should automatically 
convert the new list item in the way the one that the user connected it to is 
configured (same style, same size, same distance to page boarders).  This 
dialog screen should pop up not in front of the written stuff, but on the side, 
to make it less annoying. Maybe the headlines available for connection should 
be marked in some way. You could have all your headlines including numbering 
done in one scroll and one mouse click, so easy. Of course it should be 
possible to turn this feature off after first appearance for the pros.

would be very cool to see that feature in a new edition of your awesome office 
software! You would make so many friends with an easy user interface like that 
( and surpass MS ), I think this is a "the one who does it first wins" feature.

best regards
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