atw: Re: OpenOffice.org paragraph numbering: graveyard of hope

Hedley Finger wrote,
> Jean Weber, where are you when we need you?
Today I was having the staples removed from my leg, following hip replacement surgery 10 days ago. (You didn't really want to know that, did you?) The surgeon's office (and the hospital) is in Mackay, 2 hours' drive from my home, so it's been a long day. I'll collect my wits tomorrow and (I hope) be able to answer your question then if what I say here doesn't do the job.
Meanwhile, you might find Chapter 7, Working with Styles, in the Writer Guide helpful--or you might not: some of it may need a bit of rewriting, so a bug report on the chapter would be useful. 

> I was trying to finish an assignement and just wanted the
> Heading 1 paragraph style to have a chapter number.[...]
> ...procedures to show how to set up numbering.  Particularly,
> numbering to MY specifications -- no need for ugly full stops,
> brackets, braces, etc. etc.
Tools > Outline Numbering should do what you want, and is the best option for making heading numbers that work in the ToC. 

> 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.
I may be just tired today, but honestly I don't quite understand the question. Can you be more specific about what you mean by "the 'builder' for the table of Contents para styles", and what is a "chapter number component in the middle of the paragraph"? Chapter 12 of the Writer Guide: Creating Tables of Contents, Indexes, and Bibliographies, which covers many of the secrets of ToC formatting, might help.
I agree that OOo's method isn't intuitive, and the plethora of menu choices (most of them for people who manually format things, instead of using styles) is confusing, and the help is fairly hopeless, but once you get the hang of OOo's paragraph numbering, it really does work extremely well. 

> Can someone point me to a succinct procedure for:
> [snip]
Between the Numbering tab and the Position tab on the Outline Numbering dialog (reached from the *Tools* menu, you should be able to control all aspects of the formatting. If you get stuck on something, let me know and I'll try to give some specific clues. 

Cheers, Jean
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