At 21:02 07/11/2014 -0500, Virgil Arrington wrote:
I've used LO and its predecessors for about 15 years now. I recently
noticed that the dialog boxes for outline numbering have changed. In
the past, under the "position" tab for outline numbering, the
numbering position was determined by settings such as "width of
numbering" and "minimum space to text." Now the numbering position
is determined by settings such as "numbering followed by" and
"aligned at." This newer dialog seems to follow the practice of MS
Word and will, I think, increase compatibility of LO .doc files.
But, now I have a mishmash in my documents. Older documents have the
older dialog boxes and newer documents have the newer, even though I
load them into the same instance of LO. I'd like to get all my
documents working the same, but I've seen no way of changing the
outline numbering in old documents to match the newer dialogs. I've
played with some of the "compatibility" settings under
"tools/options," but I've found nothing that seems to have any effect.
This change was evidently inherited from OpenOffice.org. The current
OpenOffice help text explains:
'The Position tab page looks different for documents using the new
position and spacing attributes introduced with OpenOffice.org 3.0,
or documents using the old attributes from versions before 3.0. The
new version of this tab page shows the controls "Numbering followed
by", "Numbering alignment", "Aligned at", and "Indent at". The old
version of this tab page that can be seen in an old numbered or
bulleted list shows the controls "Indent", "Width of numbering",
"Minimum space numbering <-> text", and "Numbering alignment".'
Once a document has been created with outline numbering, is there a
way to make LO change the way it establishes the position of the
numbering (i.e., with "numbering followed by" a tab, rather than
"width of numbering.") It seems to be an either/or with LO, and I
can't figure out how it decides which dialog option to give me.
It appears that it decides on the basis of how any existing numbering
is already represented in the document. Presumably the only way to
change existing documents would be somehow to remove all traces of
the older technique. What happens if you remove all outline numbering
from the document, save it, reopen it, and attempt to reapply the
numbering? You could try this on a copy.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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