On Writer, you have paragraph styles and numbering styles, and it is possible to call the second kind of styles from the first ones in order to build a series of paragraphs with automatic numbering or bullets.
On its default configuration, Writer offers a series of paragraph styles called "Numbering #", with # going from 1 to 10 (and "Start", "Cont." and "End" variants of all of them), as well as paragraph styles called "List #". The problem is that those paragraph styles cannot be used out of the box to make numbered lists or bullets because they do not have a numbering style associated: the "Numbering style" on the "Outline & Numbering" tab inside the style properties is set to "None" on all those styles. On the current form, those paragraph styles do not fulfil any purpose and every now and then (not very often, that's true) we have on the forums confused users that do not understand why those "Numbering" styles do not do numbering at all. I think the default built-in template should be changed to actually associate numbering styles to those paragraph styles. See this old request on bugzilla Bug 42280 - Numbering and List paragraph styles should have numbering style by default https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=42280 What do you think? Regards Ricardo
