Re: [libreoffice-users] outline numbering

Virgil Arrington wrote:
> I've used LO and its predecessors for about 15 years now. I recently
> noticed that the dialog boxes for outline numbering have changed. In the
> past, under the "position" tab for outline numbering, the numbering
> position was determined by settings such as "width of numbering" and
> "minimum space to text." Now the numbering position is determined by
> settings such as "numbering followed by" and "aligned at." This newer
> dialog seems to follow the practice of MS Word and will, I think,
> increase compatibility of LO .doc files.
>
> But, now I have a mishmash in my documents. Older documents have the
> older dialog boxes and newer documents have the newer, even though I
> load them into the same instance of LO. I'd like to get all my documents
> working the same, but I've seen no way of changing the outline numbering
> in old documents to match the newer dialogs. I've played with some of
> the "compatibility" settings under "tools/options," but I've found
> nothing that seems to have any effect.
>
> Once a document has been created with outline numbering, is there a way
> to make LO change the way it establishes the position of the numbering
> (i.e., with "numbering followed by" a tab, rather than "width of
> numbering.") It seems to be an either/or with LO, and I can't figure out
> how it decides which dialog option to give me.
>
> Virgil

Are all the documents (old and new) in ODF Text (.odt) format? Or are 
the older ones in Word (.doc) or OpenOffice 1.0 (.sxw) format? I'm 
wondering if the options shown depend on the format of the document.

Perhaps try opening one of the older documents and use File > Save As... 
to give it a new name, ensuring ODF Text Document is selected for the 
file type. Then close, and open the newly saved document. Does it now 
have the new options?

May be worth trying even if the original document is ODF, since it might 
be an older version of ODF. I'm not sure though whether using save as 
would save the new file in the same ODF version as the original or 
whether the new version would be converted to ODF 1.2.

If there's nothing confidential in them, are you able to post examples 
of an older and a newer document, showing each set of options? I'm not 
likely to have much time to look into them myself for a few weeks, but 
perhaps others might spot some difference.

Mark.


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