Re: [libreoffice-users] Numbering help.

On 1/06/11 8:16 PM, Sigrid Carrera wrote:
> Hello Steve,
>
> On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:27:56 +1200
> Steve Edmonds<steve.edmonds@ptglobal.com>  wrote:
>
> > Hi.
> > I have got myself into a state with numbering that may be someone could
> > help me get out of, or if there is no way out may be it will lead to a
> > bug being filed.
> > I have been making notes for a company LO styles usage manual and
> > looking at what users have been doing and what they should have done and
> > how to fix up their manuals.
> >
> > I will simply explain how to recreate the problem and possibly someone
> > can help me with the correction.
> >
> > 1-Create a new writer document.
> > 2-Add say 5 lines of text.
> > 3-Apply list style Numbering 1 to get outline numbering.
> > 4-Highlight line 2 and "Demote one level"
> > 5-With line 2 now demoted change the font size of the text after the
> > numbering. The size of the outline numbering on line 2 changes to match.
> >
> > This is all as expected and as historically has happened through LO and OO.
> >
> > 6-Now click on the outline numbering (so just the numbering is
> > highlighted in gray) And change the font to another font and change the
> > font size to another size. The outline numbering all changes.
> > 7-highlight line 4 and "Demote one level"
> > 8-With line 4 now demoted change the font size of the text after the
> > numbering.
> For your points 5 and 6 you are hard formatting the appearance of the text. Instead do the 
> following:
>
> Highlight the text of your point 5, press F11 to get the styles and formatting window, and modify 
> the corresponding (highlighted) style, that is applied to this text. Do the same for the formatting 
> of your outline numbering.
> > The size of the outline numbering no longer changes to match the text.
> > The outline numbering is fixed the same font, size, weight everywhere.
> This is probably because hard formatted text takes precedence over applied styles.
>
> To remove your hard formatting mark (highlight) all your text and select "Default formatting". Once 
> this is done, you can modify the styles for the outline numbering in any way you want - but use the styles 
> and formatting window to do this. :)
Thanks, but I find that if you follow my example hard formatting the 
font using "Default formatting" does not clear the hard formatting. I 
can't seem to get rid of it and any new lists are created with the same 
hard formatting.
steve



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