On Tuesday 28 November 2006 07:33 am, Christof Schmidt wrote:
> Hello out there,
>
>
>
> I've come across a very disturbing behaviour of the OOWriter
> component: There is no way to alter the standard behaviour that
> OpenOffice.org 2.0 has when setting the bullets style and other
> formats of a list.
>
>
>
> I simply want to create a list out of standard text by clicking
> on the "Bullets on/off" icon in the formats row (not by selecting
> something from the stylist - I know that this is possible, but the
> problem is getting M$ Office users to do that).
>
> Clicking on the "Bullets on/off" icon creates a very big dot at
> the beginning of the line - but I don't like the big dot (I prefer
> smaller ones like in other Office Suites), so I have to go into a
> dialogue to alter it EVERY TIME I'M CREATING A LIST. It would be
> better if the user could choose what style to use for his "default"
> style in the stylist, but this doesn't work: The problem is that if
> you modify a style and choose a "Numbering style" in your style's
> properties, the whole style changes into a list. And here we have
> the bug. Simply try this method - in my opinion it should assign a
> certain Numbering/List style to the paragraph style which is being
> modified, but thats not the case. We get some sort of random
> behaviour instead.
>
> I've quite some problems in describing the bug efficiently and no
> experience in reporting bugs, but this affects a great number (50+)
> users I know, so it is important to me, that this bug is solved.
> Can anybody help me with this issue?
>
> You can ask for further information on the subject at any time and
> I'll try to provide it.
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> Hope to hear from you soon
> Vachigaggl
What I have done is to highlight the text I want to be converted
to a list. Then I clicked the Bullet On/Off icon. As you say, this
created bullets that are rather large. It also opened the Bullets and
Numbering toolbar. Clicking the Bullets and Numbering icon at the
right end of this toolbar opened the Bullets and Numbering window in
the Bullets tab. I clicked the top left select and OK. The bullets
were changed to the much smaller size.
When I am writing for the OOo Authors' group, I use a template
with custom paragraph styles for both numbered and bullet lists.
(This template is provided by the group with these custom styles
included.) I have learned to use styles for everything as a result of
this experience. It allows changes to be made so much easier than any
other way I know.
Dan
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