Re: [libreoffice-users] Table of Contents woes

Hi :)
Heading 1a is non-standard so it is something that someone has added.  Probably you while you were 
learning about styles by experimentation (which is a valid way to learn but dipping into the 
chapter at the same time makes it more optimal).  

> From what little i understand various styles should be linked in some way so that if you change 
> the font (or something) of 1 then that change ripples through all the other relevant styles.  
> However i think you are meant to modify the standard styles rather than re-invent your own.  
> Obviously it's smart to create your own for testing purposes so that you can experiment without 
> breaking anything but then apply what you learned to the main existing styles.  

Having said all that it might well be best to upgrade to the 4.0.3 first.  The x.x.3 is the 
equivalent of Service Pack 3 and is usually the point where a branch becomes suddenly much more 
stable.  The 4.0.x has been more stable than earlier releases for me and i upgraded early because 
of it but normally i would wait for the x.x.3.  After that putting the time into fixing the problem 
is more likely to mean it stays fixed.  

Somewhere on the icon-bar is a backwards P which does show formatting marks but that doesn't show 
styles.  It does tend to give hints about where things might have gone wrong but the napalm option 
is probably the fastest way to fix this.  

Regards from 
Tom :)  







> ________________________________
> From: Carl Paulsen <carlpaulsen@comcast.net>
> To: "users@global.libreoffice.org" <users@global.libreoffice.org> 
> Sent: Friday, 10 May 2013, 12:43
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Table of Contents woes
>
>
> Thanks, Tom.  It does seem like there's more than one style applied, but 
> I don't know how to check that.  Is there a way to display hidden 
> characters (would that show styles?) or other way I could see what's 
> going on?  The napalm approach would be to remove all styles for the 
> document and then re-apply them.  Maybe I'll try that on a portion of a 
> copy.
>
> Does anyone know what the Heading 1a style is for?  Is it possible I 
> created it a year ago when I started this document?  I don't recall 
> doing that.  I'll take a look at the styles section of the manual as 
> it's about time I really learned how to use them.  A PITA to learn but I 
> can see it's the best way to go.
>
> Here's a little more info:
> Heading 1a is level 1 in this document (not indented even thought this 
> section header IS in fact indented)
> Heading 1a is linked with Contents 2 (which is supposed to be level 2 I 
> think)
>
> So two questions.  First, could this be part of the trouble? Second, I 
> was considering upgrading to LO 4, and in case my styles got scrogged, 
> is there a way to upgrade while removing any styles I may have created?  
> I'm sure I can re-apply the Draft style watermark which is the only 
> custom style I intentionally use.
>
> Thanks,
> Carl
>
>
>
> On 5/10/13 2:16 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
> > Hi :)
> > Have you been able to manually edit it?
> >
> > It does look as though something is very wrong.  It looks like 2 
> > styles have been applied to each heading.  First as a sub-heading and 
> > then as a main heading.  Sometimes the fastest way to fix something is 
> > an inelegant approach such as mine rather than trouble-shooting down 
> > to the exact cause.
> >
> > If it was all the sub-headings that you wanted to get rid of then it's 
> > fairly easy to set the ToC to only show main headings but that would 
> > not help this case.  There is some documentation on Styles in Chapter 
> > 3 of the Getting Started Guide
> > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications#Getting_Started_with_LibreOffice
> >
> > Hopefully someone else can give a better answer (or even better if i 
> > missed a better answer)
> > Apols and regards from
> > Tom :)
> >
> >
> >
> >      ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >      *From:* Carl Paulsen <carlpaulsen@comcast.net>
> >      *To:* "users@global.libreoffice.org" <users@global.libreoffice.org>
> >      *Sent:* Thursday, 9 May 2013, 19:21
> >      *Subject:* [libreoffice-users] Table of Contents woes
> >
> >      LibreOffice 3.5.6.2
> >      Build ID: e0fbe70-dcba98b-297ab39-994e618-0f858f0
> >      On an Intel Mac on 10.6.8
> >
> >      I have a draft document in which I've used heading styles for
> >      sections.
> >      I now want to create a Table of Contents (ToC), but I'm having
> >      trouble
> >      getting it to work right.  I'm using the styles almost as they
> >      came with
> >      the software (I added one style for a "Draft" watermark that I'm also
> >      using in this document).
> >
> >      The problem is that sections to which I've applied the Heading 1a
> >      style
> >      end up with 2 or 3 entries in the ToC, at different levels. So, for
> >      example, I have one Heading 1 section, "Fundraising History,"
> >      followed
> >      by a subsection called "Annual Fund" set to Heading 1a.  There are
> >      other
> >      subsections with Heading 1a applied, then other sections with
> >      Heading 1
> >      applied.  The ToC reads:
> >
> >      Fundraising History
> >          Annual Fund
> >      Annual Fund
> >          Auction
> >      Auction
> >
> >      Etc.
> >
> >      The ToC should read:
> >
> >      Fundraising History
> >          Annual Fund
> >          Auction
> >
> >      Etc.
> >
> >      ToC screen grab
> >      (I've inserted a screen-shot image here but not sure it'll get
> >      through
> >      to the group.)
> >
> >      Any idea what's going on and how I can fix it?  Thanks so much.
> >
> >      -- 
> >
> >      Carl Paulsen
> >
> >      Dover, NH
>
> Carl Paulsen
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