Vincent DiCarlo wrote:
I need to format my paragraph numbers so that they have a fixed number of
digits and display any leading zeros.
Open Office Writer allows you to format numbers in cells of tables so that,
for example, you can display leading zeros, but there appears to be no way to
do the same thing for paragraph numbers and outline numbers that are
generated by the paragraph numbering and outline features.
...
Yes. Strange omission--stranger yet that it hasn't been requested
either, as far as I can see (although this one is close:
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=21387 )
You'll have number your paragraphs manually, I think. Hopefully someone
will prove me wrong ;-)
You can take some of the drudgery out by defining a new variable:
Insert > Fields > Other > Variables > Set variable
Name="_ppn"
Value="_ppn+1"
Format=(Leading zeros=4)
Every time you insert that field (just copy and paste the after first
one), it will count up by one.
It would be nice to use a "Number Range" variable instead, so you could
create references to a particular pp number, but you can't apply number
formats to number ranges, only to plain variables. Bizarre limitations.
As far as the layout, you can either format normal paragraphs to have a
hanging indent where the numbers appear, or put the numbers in a frame
positioned off to the left, or use a 2-column table with the numbers in
the left column.
<Joe
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