Re: Inept numbering in OOo?

[Siliconwriter <siliconwriter -at- comcast -dot- net>]

Thanks for the tip, Dan. I wish I had seen this last week!  This will  
be coming in very  handy in future.

As for Bruce's suggestion, yes, I knew about the Tools>Outline  
Numbering feature. What I did not know was HOW IT WORKED because the  
online documentation is so minimal as to be invisible. I knew that OO  
and Word were not identical, but I had no idea how different their  
approaches to numbering were.

My problem was that, having defined a style as a header 2 or header 3  
paragraph, and having defined the numbering style, those styles were  
not consistently applied throughout the document. I had to go through  
the entire 300 page document and apply each style by hand to the  
appropriate header. If I changed the paragraph style, the numbering  
style did not change, and vice versa. The paragraph numbering process  
should not be broken up like this. It's a nightmare.

Sarah


On Jan 13, 2006, at 11:16 AM, Dan Goldstein wrote: