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Regards, -- Sina Momken Senior B.Sc. Graduate, Iran University of Science and Technology, Computer Engineering Department www.sinamomken.com <http://www.sinamomken.com> On 05/25/2014 05:33 PM, bknox wrote: > Hi, > > I picked up your thread on the web but I couldn't find the wiki it > came from so please excuse this direct email. > It appears you've both been dealing with much more complex problems > than mine which I set out as [on the ubuntu forums]: > > "People send me big documents with paragraphs auto-numbered. > I need to work on them, add paras, alter paras, delete paras and > comment and debate content. > So I need to preserve the original paragraph numbering so that when I > return the altered document the recipient can see and find what has > been abstracted, added or altered. > I can of course use Track Changes which helps a bit but ...... > *How do I preserve the numbers auto-allocated to the paragraphs by the > originator so they become part of the text: ie so they survive my edits?* > > I am using LibreOffice 3.5.7.2 Build ID: 350m1(Build:2) on Ubuntu 12.04" > > I received some help and needed to explain: > "Auto-numbering is inappropriate for such work [as is all imposed > Default Formatting]. The choice to apply auto-numbering is the > originator's, not mine. I'd rather they didn't but they do! If the > draft goes through, say, 3 revisions [it can be many more] you get > nonsense such as "Bill, do you think Matty will accept 'at' not 'on' > in the 3rd line of para 5.2.3.8 which was 5.3.3.9 in my response and > 4.3.3.22 in your original?" etc.. Auto-numbering is of course very > useful for the final version, which we would create by taking the > accumulated amendments. We would know exactly where to apply them > [with great care] to the Auto-numbered original draft because we would > be working with the same para numbers. > BUT, you seem to have the answer ... Please HOW DO YOU "convert all > automatic numbers into constant text". It is most certainly desired, > and what I need to do on receipt of these documents! > > He said: > "To be honest: I have not tried converting automatic numbering to > fixedtext in libreoffice yet, but only on MS office, and there it can > be donewith a quite complicated key combination (as far as I can > remember*something like ctrl-alt-shift-f9*)." > > Do either of you happen to know the correct key combination in Writer > please? > > any help would be very gratefully received. > regards > Barry > > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org 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
