Re: How the H*()*) do I turn auto numbering in OO Writer completely OFF ?

2010-02-23 Thread Tim
Tim: One of my peeves about auto-numbering is that it's two simplistic. Patrick O'Callaghan: Or even *too* simplistic :-) ;-) My spelling gets worse and worse, the more I see badly written stuff on the interwebs. It's corrupting my memory. I think it was Brian Kernighan who said that in a

Re: How the H*()*) do I turn auto numbering in OO Writer completely OFF ?

2010-02-22 Thread Hiisi
2010/2/22 Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com: Linuxguy123 wrote: I spend way, way more time **UNFORMATTING** the stupid number formatting that OO writer applies than I would spend adding number to the paragraphs I wish to have numbered.  Isn't the purpose of software to make our lives

Re: How the H*()*) do I turn auto numbering in OO Writer completely OFF ?

2010-02-22 Thread Paul Allen Newell
Hiisi wrote: 2010/2/22 Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com: Linuxguy123 wrote: I spend way, way more time **UNFORMATTING** the stupid number formatting that OO writer applies than I would spend adding number to the paragraphs I wish to have numbered. Isn't the purpose of software

Re: How the H*()*) do I turn auto numbering in OO Writer completely OFF ?

2010-02-22 Thread Hiisi
2010/2/22 Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com: On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 13:18 +0300, Hiisi wrote: 2010/2/22 Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com: --SUPER_SNIP-- Best, :-) Marko Agreed. And if you only want to type good looking documents and you want it quickly give lyx a try. It's in

Re: How the H*()*) do I turn auto numbering in OO Writer completely OFF ?

2010-02-22 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-02-21 at 21:08 -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote: What really rips me off is that this auto numbering stuff has been going on for YEARS in a predictable cycle. Use Writer for bit, find numbering to be irritating. Do a web search to try to figure out how to turn it off. Turn off some

Re: How the H*()*) do I turn auto numbering in OO Writer completely OFF ?

2010-02-22 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 10:06 +1030, Tim wrote: One of my peeves about auto-numbering is that it's two simplistic. Or even *too* simplistic :-) I can't recall a word processor that will let me write up numbered sections on a page, and let one (or more) of those sections be more than one

Re: How the H*()*) do I turn auto numbering in OO Writer completely OFF ?

2010-02-22 Thread Paul Allen Newell
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Amen to that. I think it was Brian Kernighan who said that in a WYSIWYG system, what you see is *all* you get. poc Ah, now that is worth more than a smile as I did when the acronym was first mentioned. A tip of the hat to Brian and thanks to you for posting.

How the H*()*) do I turn auto numbering in OO Writer completely OFF ?

2010-02-21 Thread Linuxguy123
Another OO update and even more stupid, silly auto numbering. How do I turn it right off, FOREVER ? [rant] I don't know who controls the design of the OO suite, but some of us DO NOT WANT auto paragraph numbering every time we start a paragraph with a number, hyphen or bullet point.Yeah, I'm

Re: How the H*()*) do I turn auto numbering in OO Writer completely OFF ?

2010-02-21 Thread Linuxguy123
I think I figured out how to turn off autonumbering. First of all, the help system on OO Writer version 3.3.1 Build 9420 is wrong. To turn it on, it says: OpenOffice.org can automatically apply numbering or bullets as you type. To Enable Automatic Numbering and Bulleting 1. Choose Tools

Re: How the H*()*) do I turn auto numbering in OO Writer completely OFF ?

2010-02-21 Thread Paul Allen Newell
Linuxguy123 wrote: I think I figured out how to turn off autonumbering. First of all, the help system on OO Writer version 3.3.1 Build 9420 is wrong. To turn it on, it says: OpenOffice.org can automatically apply numbering or bullets as you type. To Enable Automatic Numbering and