Jimmy Summers wrote:
I am running Open Office 2.0 and am using Writer.
I have tried to find a way to turn off the numbering and bullet formatting for
an entire document when beginning the document creation (I don't want it active
at all throughout the document). The way the program appears to be set up is
for numbering and bulleting to be on continuously. I can type the information
in and let the program format it and then go back, highlight it and then click
remove from the bullet and formatting menu, but this only works for one
paragraph.
I am a instructor and I use this to create tests. Having to do it this way for
a 50 or 100 question exam means I have to do this action 50 to 100 times since
each question is considered a paragraph by the program. That is a lot of time
wasted.
I like my own formatting scheme and would rather not have the program second
guess me as to what I want and automatically do something I don't want. I am
interested in a way to turn the bulleting and numbering off completely for the
entire document when I start so that I don't have to go back and do it for each
question I type. If you can tell me how to do this (I have looked at the help
screens and tried to find it but this does not appear to be an option.) I would
be grateful. This is the only major problem I have had with your product
(other than minor difficulties trying to print brochures that worked perfectly
with MS Office) and I have the same problem with bullets and numbering with MS
Office when using it. Only WordPerfect seems to understand and defaults to no
formatting unless you turn it on. That is the way it should be and that is
what I want to do here.
If this is not a capability of the program at this time, would you please put
this on your list of changes and enhancements for the next revision? It is
easy enough when you are setting up a document to activate this feature if you
want it. Otherwise having it default to off would be very helpful.
Thank you.
Jimmy
Hello,
If I understand your problem correctly, you start the paragraph with a
number, - or * and automatically OOo creates a bulleted/numbered list.
You can avoid it un-ticking the corresponding box in Tools > Autocorrect
options tab "Apply numbering - symbol : * in the [T] column. This should
do the trick.
Cheers,
Michele
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