Re: [libreoffice-users] Bullet indent frustrations

Hi :)
I am not sure but this documentation might be better
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation#Getting_Started_with_LibreOffice
Styles and Templates might be helpful.  It's the same documentation that is on this page
http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/
But it's easier to see extra details such as when the chapters were produced, how many pages etc.  

The Pdfs have the advantage that the Table of Contents has clickable links so just click on the 
topic you want and it takes you to the right place.  The Odts advantage is that you can keep a copy 
on your machine and edit them for personal use.  If you want to do a lot of edits then the 
Documentation team might appreciate comments to help them improve the guides for everyone.  They 
are already working on improvements for the 2nd release of some of those guides anyway but would 
appreciate help.  
Regards from
Tom :)  


--- On Sat, 8/10/11, AG <computing.account@googlemail.com> wrote:

From: AG <computing.account@googlemail.com>
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Bullet indent frustrations
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Saturday, 8 October, 2011, 10:33

Hey list

I really, really enjoy using LibO and recommend it widely as a viable alternative to MS Office.  
So, thank you developers!

I do have one bone of contention where I do think that MS Office is superior to LibO Writer though, 
and that is in MS Office's formatting of bullets.  In MSO, when one inserts bullets and they appear 
too far away from the border of a table, one merely needs to right click on the bullet and select 
"reduce indent" (or increase for the alternative option of moving the bullet further from the table 
border).

In LibO however, this function doesn't appear to exist and I find that I have to wade through some 
confusing documentation with terms that I'm not at all familiar with to achieve the same result.  
I'm obviously very bad at doing so correctly however, because the effect I achieve is variable, and 
inevitably ends up with the rest of the text hanging off at indentations that I don't want.

I find this amazingly frustrating and distracts me from the actual content of what I want to do.

Is there a simple way that I can align/ indent bullets so that they are flush against the border of 
a table and not spend fruitless amounts of time trying to figure this out from scratch each time?

Additionally, the alignment for numbering is messy especially when using Roman numerals (i), (ii) 
because by the time one gets to (iii), the text now appears significantly indented from the 
brackets of the (iii) and just looks ridiculous.

Any straightforward suggestions on how to fix this without the requirement for me to become some 
kind of text formatting guru?

Cheers

AG

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