Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer: how to turn off auto-generated lists?

At 10:33 12/02/2015 +0000, Gary Collins wrote:
> Hopefully an easy question for someone :-)

Yup: so easy that there are two answers!

> How to I turn off auto-generation of list 
> entries (preferably without altering any other 
> settings? I generally tend to find this feature 
> a pain in the proverbials, and would much rather 
> apply list formatting, etc using styles, after a 
> document (or section of a document) has been 
> completed. The problem really came to a head 
> yesterday, when I was writing up some notes on 
> language, and made some table headings (not an 
> actual table, but one made "manually" using 
> tabs) using M. F. N. (for masculine, feminine, 
> neuter). LO completely reinterpreted this, and, 
> when I pressed 'enter,'Â made it into the first 
> entry of a list, supposing it to be the Roman 
> numeral M, and inserting MI at the beginning of 
> the new line. I was unable to find a way to 
> eradicate this effectively, and had to stop what I was doing as a result.

Always think of keeping the facility and dealing 
it with it piecemeal when it happens. The action 
of pressing Enter to complete the first paragraph 
causes an automatic "correction" which you will 
notice. The correction is a separate process from 
the paragraph break that you actually want. So if 
you go *immediately* to Edit | Undo (or Ctrl+Z), 
you can remove the correction but retain the part you need.

> I looked in "options" and I looked in 
> "preferences" but couldn't see a way to turn off 
> this behaviour. There was nothing in the 
> paragraph style that I could see that should cause this behaviour.

If you really want to disable this correction 
process completely, remove the tick from Tools | 
AutoCorrect Options... | Options | Apply numbering - symbol: *.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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