Hi :) You were nearly there but just missed slightly! There are 2 ways, one is a bit different from what you are doing but is more elegant.
Your way, because you are nearly there already. Do the back-space at the end of the list to get rid of the new number and press enter again. That drops you back to the far left so you can carry on without the indent. After you have finished typing a few more lines then go back and select the whole of the numbered area and use the ruler-bar at the top of the document to adjust the amount of indent. The other way (well, one of the other ways) is to leave numbering until the end. Do the typing first until you have gone past the area you wanted to number. Then go back to select that area to apply numbering and do all the adjustments you want all in one go. In general LibreOffice is designed with a different ethos from Word. If you try to use it as you would use Word then you miss out on many of the things that makes it more efficient and faster to produce far better quality documents than you would to produce comparatively rubbish ones in Word. In Word the whole idea of styles is a pain that you have to fight against all the time. You constantly have to stop typing in order to reach for the mouse and make some stupid little change or apply formatting directly. It reduces great typists from upwards of 75wpm to as slow as me! In Writer it's better to just do lots of the typing first and then apply headings or any of the different formatting bits&bobs afterwards. Generally you do this by using styles. Say you type all your document in the style called "body" or "default". When you do headings you apply style 1 for the main and then 2 for sub-headings and so on. You can then edit/modify the settings of the styles and the changes you just made to the style ripples through the whole document. So lets say you were typing most of it in Arial 10 point but 3/4 the way through decided to change it all to Times New Roman 11pt. All you need to do is edit the style called "default" without even needing to select any of the text in the document. In Word after you have finished typing you generally notice some areas where the font changed randomly without you telling it to, perhaps even switching from English (Uk (or whatever)) into English (US) and back again at random. It takes a bit of messing around to try to get all the text the same and usually people give up resulting in quite odd changes mid-way through. Bullet-pointed lists where the size and shape of one of the points is different. Numbered lists that mis-count. Tbh i didn't take much notice of styles for ages either and just used Writer the same way i had used Word. When i did read-up the chapter in the guides i found my efficiency rocketed even though i didn't understand it all or do all of it. Later i re-read that chapter and each time found another boost in productivity for each new thing. See the "Getting Started Guide" Chapter 3 https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications but don't try to understand it all. Just skim it first time. Regards from Tom :) On 18 November 2013 14:02, Helen <[email protected]> wrote: > L) frustration -- trying to write a letter for the national office of an > organization. I have five items that I want to number. LO insists upon > giving me a number I don't want every time I hit "return" and it also > insists upon indent in places I don't want. I backspace to remove the > indent and it then won't let me have a return-line space. How can I turn > off all automatic formatting? > > > > -- > Helen Etters > using Linux, suse12.3 > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
