2008/6/22 Barbara Duprey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> The answer to this one depends on whether the list is recognized as a
> numbered list by Writer. If so, select the text of the whole list; the icon
> for numbered lists should be highlighted. Click it to toggle to the
> paragraph form.

Thank you Barbara. I have no toolbars, so I did not even think to
start looking for icons. Enabling the Formatting toolbar showed the
Lists icons, which of course made the task simple. Thanks!

> If the numbers were entered manually, you need to use a regular expression
> with "^[0-9]*\. " (without the quotes: caret, left square bracket, digit 0,
> dash, digit 9, right square bracket, asterisk, backslash, period, space) as
> the search string with no replace string. Select the whole list, and make
> sure that under the Find and Replace More Options the options for regular
> expressions and current selection only are selected, and Replace All.
> Translation: find strings at the beginning of a paragraph that consist of
> digits followed by a period and a space, and replace them with a null
> string.

I feared that the solution may involve a regex... I'm happy to know
that I can get by without a regex but it's good to know that OOo is
powerful enough to understand them when they are needed.

> This one is like the simpler version above: select the whole list, then
> click the numbered list icon in the toolbar. You may need to modify the list
> style, or unindent, if you want the list to start on the left margin.

Yes, it was obvious the minute I had an icon for it! Next time I will
search the common toolbars before bugging with silly questions.
Thanks.

Dotan Cohen

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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
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