Alan, 

I think that the numbering/outlining implementation of  OOo is unnecessarily 
complicated and rather unintuitive!
Some months ago, I initiated a thread in this list about this same subject 
(follow the thread on 
http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=users&msgId=2047526; see 
below my original message). Unfortunately, most of the readers just read it; 
and a couple of users tried to convince me (without success) that it was 
justified to have a separation between numbering and paragraph formatting 
(stylewise or not). Even if the interfered with each other!!! :-|

José

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[users] List/numbering formatting and styles: why are they separated from 
paragraph formatting and styles?
 Data: 2005-06-16 21:34
 De: "J. Magalhães Cruz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  (DEEC-FEUP)
 Para: [email protected]
 
Hello all!
I have always found quite difficult to fully control with ease the usage of 
list anf numbering of paragraphs, both by direct formatting and by using 
styles.
Before raising an issue in Issuezilla, I would like to ask anyone the 
following question:
"Why are list/numbering formatting and styles separated from paragraph 
formatting and styles?"

Thanks all
José
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Dizia Alan Chandler em Segunda 21 Novembro 2005 15:46:
> Guido Pinkernell writes:
> > Am Montag, 21. November 2005 14:39 schrieb Alan Chandler:
>
> ...
>
> >> 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?)
> >
> > Oh yes it does. F11 opens the stylist. One of the icons is for paragraph
> > styles (incl. headings etc), one of the others is for numbered/bulletes
> > styles.
>
> I think this is the crux of what I don't understand.
>
> Does this mean that any given paragraph can have a paragraph style AND a
> list style AT THE SAME TIME?  If so, that explains it.
>
> Is there anyway you can find out what styles a particular paragraph has
> other than the one mentioned in the toolbar at the left hand end?
>
> If not, are you saying that the numbering style replaces the paragraph
> style when you hit the numbered list icon?
>
>
>
>
>
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> Alan Chandler
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