On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 12:48 -0500, Laurent Duperval wrote: > HI, > > I thought I had this bullet and numbering thing down pat. But now, I > realize I am fighting the feature with tooth and nail. Here is what I am > experiencing: > > I have certain styles that alway must use numbering or bulleting. For > example, I have a style called Important which uses a bullet that looks > like a start. I have another one called "List 2" which is slightly > indented and uses a small bullet. I have other styles like that. > > Now, when I create a paragraph using the Important style, then press > Enter,the next style is, again, Important. If I want to change it to, > say, List 2, I expect my paragraph to indent a bit to the right and I > expect the bullet type to change. I *think* this is how it worked in > version 1.x. But that's not quite what happens. The bullet disappears or > it uses the same bullet as the Important paragraph. > > There is something I don't understand with applying bullets and > numbering. I took a lok at the Formatting with Styles document but it > doesn't quite explain (to me, anyway) what is happening. > > A couple of workarounds that I seem to have to use: > > - Change my current paragraph style to "Default" befor applying the List > or Important style > - Click on the "Bullet On/Off" button twice. This works, however, if I > am using a numbering style, this can break my numbering completely. > > Any help is greatly appreciated. >
Not sure I really understand what you are experiencing but I do have a suggestion that you might like to try. That is making your styles conditional. An example that is built-in is Text body. -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
