atw: OpenOffice.org paragraph numbering: graveyard of hope
- From: Hedley Finger <hfinger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 11:49:05 +1000
Jean Weber, where are you when we need you?
I was trying to finish an assignement and just wanted the Heading 1
paragraph style to have a chapter number.
So I got absolutely flummoxed between List 1 style, Numbering 1 style,
Outline Numbering, and the Format > Bullets and Numbering menu
item. The near useless help offers only reference information (I
already had an idea that the Bullets and Numbering dialogue was about,
well, bullets and numbering, thanks) but no procedures to show how to set
up numbering. Particularly, numbering to MY specifications -- no
need for ugly full stops, brackets, braces, etc. etc.
Also, when setting up the 'builder' for the table of Contents para
styles, how do you get rid of a paragraph component? I accidentally
added another chapter number component in the middle of the paragraph but
then found I could not delete, not with the Delete key, not with a
contest menu, nothing.
The OpenOffice.org folks had better watch out or they will start making
Word look good. FrameMaker may require you to type funny codes like
<n+> when setting up a numbered para format but believe me it gives
you complete and total control over para formats and is approximately 897
times easier than bloody (sorry, spam filters) OOo.
I feel better now. Can someone point me to a succinct procedure
for:
- Adding an automatically incrementing number to a heading so that it
appears EVERY time the style format is applied
- Customising said number in the character format of my choice without
superfluous punctuation
- Setting up the para indents so the first and second lines of the para
body align vertically at the left
- Customising the table of Contents paragraph entries
I live in hope that the Keeper of the Secrets will read this
....
Regards,
Hedley
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Hedley Stewart Finger
28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124
Australia
Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Mobile +61 412 461 558,
E-mail
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