Virgil Arrington wrote
I may be completely confused, but if you're trying to clone a document
that originated in Word, then that makes things a little more
complicated. In my experience, Word and LO do outline numbering in
different ways and they don't translate well with each other.
The
The purpose is to clone an entire document into an empty new document.
To do so, I would select the document and paste the selection into the new
document, then load the style definitions from the original document (via
F11 - Load Styles..., all styles and Overwrite).
This reproduces everything
Virgil Arrington wrote
At any rate, the easiest way I know to clone a document is to save it
with a new name, using the File/Save As command.
the reason for cloning is - usually - to overcome difficulties with MS Word
import, e.g., with unused bibliography entries accumulated from earlier
