[libreoffice-users] Re: automatic numbering to fixed text

Hello,

Your email is a bit long and I am very busy now. Let me take some free
time to completely read your email and answer it properly.
I will answer you in the coming days.

Regards,
-- 
Sina Momken
Senior B.Sc. Graduate,
Iran University of Science and Technology,
Computer Engineering Department
www.sinamomken.com <http://www.sinamomken.com>   

On 05/25/2014 05:33 PM, bknox wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I picked up your thread on the web but I couldn't find the wiki it
> came from so please excuse this direct email.
> It appears you've both been dealing with much more complex problems
> than mine which I set out as [on the ubuntu forums]:
>
> "People send me big documents with paragraphs auto-numbered.
> I need to work on them, add paras, alter paras, delete paras and
> comment and debate content.
> So I need to preserve the original paragraph numbering so that when I
> return the altered document the recipient can see and find what has
> been abstracted, added or altered.
> I can of course use Track Changes which helps a bit but ......
> *How do I preserve the numbers auto-allocated to the paragraphs by the
> originator so they become part of the text: ie so they survive my edits?*
>
> I am using LibreOffice 3.5.7.2 Build ID: 350m1(Build:2) on Ubuntu 12.04"
>
> I received some help and needed to explain:
> "Auto-numbering is inappropriate for such work [as is all imposed
> Default Formatting]. The choice to apply auto-numbering is the
> originator's, not mine. I'd rather they didn't but they do! If the
> draft goes through, say, 3 revisions [it can be many more] you get
> nonsense such as "Bill, do you think Matty will accept 'at' not 'on'
> in the 3rd line of para 5.2.3.8 which was 5.3.3.9 in my response and
> 4.3.3.22 in your original?" etc.. Auto-numbering is of course very
> useful for the final version, which we would create by taking the
> accumulated amendments. We would know exactly where to apply them
> [with great care] to the Auto-numbered original draft because we would
> be working with the same para numbers.
> BUT, you seem to have the answer ... Please HOW DO YOU "convert all
> automatic numbers into constant text". It is most certainly desired,
> and what I need to do on receipt of these documents!
>
> He said:
> "To be honest: I have not tried converting automatic numbering to
> fixedtext in libreoffice yet, but only on MS office, and there it can
> be donewith a quite complicated key combination (as far as I can
> remember*something like ctrl-alt-shift-f9*)."
>
> Do either of you happen to know the correct key combination in Writer
> please?
>
> any help would be very gratefully received.
> regards
> Barry


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