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Posted to users@openoffice.apache.org by Brian Barker <b....@btinternet.com> on 2013/11/20 06:59:34 UTC
Re: Writer, outline numbered list
At 22:20 19/11/2013 -0500, Julian Thomas wrote:
>I am still having major issues with lists If I start a numbered
>list and enter items:
>1. xxx
>2. yyy
>3. zzz
>and then want to put some bulleted items in:
> * aa
> * bb
>
>That all works OK.
>
>But then I unindent and change to numbers, and the next item is again: 1.
Don't unindent. Use Backspace to cancel the bulleting.
>It's a [considerable problem] to try to get this back under
>control. If I go back to 3.zzz and enter, I get
>4.
>
>but if I then try to paste the
> * aa
> * bb
>under 3.zzz it's a mess.
Actually, this works for me. Press Enter to start a new paragraph
where you want the bulleted list. Your new paragraph will
(temporarily) be numbered "4." (and paragraph 4 "5."). Providing
your new paragraph is empty, pasting in the bulleted list should put
everything back to normal at a stroke.
>The easiest way I've found to get out of this mess is to start a new
>document, put in all the top level stuff, and then insert the
>bulleted items - as UNFORMATTED text and rebulletize them.
There is no need to start a new document, of course! But this is
indeed probably the easiest way to achieve what you want: to enter
the bulleted items at first without changing the numbering - so that
they are numbered as paragraphs four and five. Later, after you have
started your real paragraph four - which will appear at first as
paragraph "6." - go back and select the items to be bulleted, and
change the style to bulleted. Paragraph 6. will be instantly
renumbered as "4.", as you need.
>Sometimes when I undent [isn't that the reverse of indent??] ...
Probably "unindent" - as you had it at first.
>... a bullet, it ends up outside the left margin.
Well, it will! Instead of using the Decrease Indent button, adjust
indenting on the Position tab of the Bullets and Numbering dialogue.
>Arrrrrggggghhh!
I trust I've been able to remove a few consonants from your frustration.
Brian Barker
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Re: please take me off this chatter
Posted by John Meyer <jo...@pueblocomputing.com>.
On 11/20/2013 7:13 AM, karen nonnecke wrote:
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Re: please take me off this chatter
Posted by karen nonnecke <kn...@sympatico.ca>.
On 2013-11-20, at 12:59 AM, Brian Barker wrote:
> At 22:20 19/11/2013 -0500, Julian Thomas wrote:
>> I am still having major issues with lists If I start a numbered list and enter items:
>> 1. xxx
>> 2. yyy
>> 3. zzz
>> and then want to put some bulleted items in:
>> * aa
>> * bb
>>
>> That all works OK.
>>
>> But then I unindent and change to numbers, and the next item is again: 1.
>
> Don't unindent. Use Backspace to cancel the bulleting.
>
>> It's a [considerable problem] to try to get this back under control. If I go back to 3.zzz and enter, I get
>> 4.
>>
>> but if I then try to paste the
>> * aa
>> * bb
>> under 3.zzz it's a mess.
>
> Actually, this works for me. Press Enter to start a new paragraph where you want the bulleted list. Your new paragraph will (temporarily) be numbered "4." (and paragraph 4 "5."). Providing your new paragraph is empty, pasting in the bulleted list should put everything back to normal at a stroke.
>
>> The easiest way I've found to get out of this mess is to start a new document, put in all the top level stuff, and then insert the bulleted items - as UNFORMATTED text and rebulletize them.
>
> There is no need to start a new document, of course! But this is indeed probably the easiest way to achieve what you want: to enter the bulleted items at first without changing the numbering - so that they are numbered as paragraphs four and five. Later, after you have started your real paragraph four - which will appear at first as paragraph "6." - go back and select the items to be bulleted, and change the style to bulleted. Paragraph 6. will be instantly renumbered as "4.", as you need.
>
>> Sometimes when I undent [isn't that the reverse of indent??] ...
>
> Probably "unindent" - as you had it at first.
>
>> ... a bullet, it ends up outside the left margin.
>
> Well, it will! Instead of using the Decrease Indent button, adjust indenting on the Position tab of the Bullets and Numbering dialogue.
>
>> Arrrrrggggghhh!
>
> I trust I've been able to remove a few consonants from your frustration.
>
> Brian Barker
>
>
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