Still struggling with styles and numbering of paragraphs in writer. I am
getting closer to getting a complete mental picture of what is happening,
but just when I think I have it nailed - I try something and it doesn't
work. I am clearly doing something strange in that I have managed to crash
openoffice (a hope a report of the problem got sent automatically - if it
got past our firewall).
A number of questions.
1) What is the difference between outline numbering and list numbering. Are
they completely independent of one another.
2) Following on from the first question, there are two similar but different
dialogs. The Tools/Outline Numbering and the Format/Bullets and numbering.
Is the former soley for outline numbering and the latter soley for list
numbering?
3) Following on from the second question - the tools/outline numbering
allows you to allocate a style to each level, where as the format/bullets
and numbering doesn't. How do the format of list numbering get remembered
in a style (or doesn't it?)
4) When editing a style definition, the numbering tab refers to another
style. What does this actually do - it seems to point to something with
exactly the same characteritics as the style you are editing. What
characteristics get inheritied and when?
5) How do you specify in a style (so that it gets remembered) what the style
of numbering is (ie 1,2,3 or a,b,c or i,ii,ii).
6) The "numbering on/off" button on the toolbar seems to affect both outline
and list style numbering. How does this interact with the menu commands?
By that I mean what exactly is it switching off and what exactly is it
switching on again when you interact with it. In particular, when you
toggle it off and on again, all the numbering styles that had been set up in
the two dialog boxes I mention in question 2 seem to get reset to a default
value (1,2,3 ...). Is this supposed to happen, and why or is it a bug? Is
it possible somewhere else to define this default value that it gets set to?
5) If I select (F11) the styles and formating dialog and right click on a
style and choose modify and then select the numbering tab. I then select
the help button. This gives a help message which says
"Select the outline level that you want to apply to the paragraph.
Numbering Style
Select the Numbering Style that you want to apply to the paragraph. These
styles are also listed in the Styles and Formatting window if you click the
Numbering Style icon.
Edit
Opens a dialog to edit the numbering style."
I don't have an edit button, and this seems to be exactly the button I need
to do the things I am struggling with above. Where has it gone? - do I need
to do something else to make it appear?
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As you can see quite a lot of questions. The main thing I want to do is set
up a style in which the indents and the numbering scheme is remembered. I
don't particularly care whether its an outline numbering scheme or a list
numbering scheme. Is that possible?
A final remark - the numbering on/off button as currently configured seems
lethal. It can destroy all the formatting in a document.
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Alan Chandler
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