On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 07:17:08 -0500, Dan Lewis wrote: > On Saturday 30 September 2006 06:49 am, Paul_B wrote: >> I've been having difficulty configuring bullets. At first, >> invoking bullets via the taskbar indented paragraphs 2.5", though >> there was no setting that would cause that. >> >> Just by shaking things up, I eliminated that problem. But now I >> find that nothing I do via Format/"Bullets and Numbering" has any >> effect on which character is used for the bullet. Clicking the >> Bullet icon toggles among a simple dot, a hollow chevron, and no >> bullet. Where the chevron is coming from, I don't know. And my >> efforts to use an alternate to the dot have not worked either. >> >> Am I missing a step here, or is OO having difficulty reading its >> options on this point? >> >> Thanks, >> p. > > Just about everything you need to do with Writer involves styles. Even > bullets are governed by them. I recommend you read the appropriate > section of the User's Guide at > http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/ or the chapters on > styles at http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors2/. > The Getting Started Guide has one chapter on styles and the Writer > Guide has two chapters on styles. > > Dan
Good resource page, thanks. I did learn that the List styles can be applied to paragraph styles. But OO's behavior defies my understanding. Now, taskbar bulleting doesn't cycle the hollow chevron as it did before, just off and on as it should, but I'm still getting 2.5" of indent I've not called for. And the Format/autoformat/'while typing' behavior, which is supposed to detect and self-initiate paragraph numbering, I'm not seeing at all. p. -- Using OOo 2.0.3 on Win XP sp2. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
