https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83364
Priority: medium
Bug ID: 83364
CC: albrecht.muel...@astrail.de
Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
Blocks: 83071
Summary: UI: Help information missing in the Outline &
Numbering tab of Paragraph Style window
Severity: normal
Classification: Unclassified
OS: Windows (All)
Reporter: albrecht.muel...@astrail.de
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Version: 4.2.5.2 release
Component: Writer
Product: LibreOffice
In the Outline & Numbering tab of the Paragraph Style window there a controls
to define the outline level and the numbering style of a paragraph. This may
not work as expected as there are two different concepts of how the numbering
for some paragraph works. Therefore the user may need help information at this
point.
To see the problem, press F11 to get the Styles and Formatting window, and
press the Paragraph Styles button. Right click on some style offered there and
choose modify to open the Paragraph Style window. Select the Outline &
Numbering tab. You will see somethink as shown in attachment 105322 or
attachment 105323 of bug 83071. The controls are disabled if the paragraph is
some header style that can be changed using the Tools -> Outline Numbering
window. They are enabled for other paragraph styles. The user may want to
change the outline style and is not aware that there is something like the
Outline Numbering tool. The only thing he or she sees are disabled controls. So
how it is possible to change the outline style. On the other hand the user may
want to define a header style. He or she sees the controls enabled, selects the
outline level and the numbering style and will notice, that this does not work
as expected: The outline level will not match the corresponding level in the
list style used for numbering. In both cases the user may try to get help using
the help button.
What he or she will see is something like attachment 105324 belonging to bug
83071, i.e. no useful information.
You may also have a look at bug 62032 to find someone else who fell into this
trap.
The expected behaviour is that there is useful help information which explains
that
a) You cannot define Outline Numbering using this window. You have to use the
Tools -> Outline Numbering window for that purpose. That is why the controls
are disabled.
b) If you define both an outline level and a list style, these things are
independent of each other and serve different purposes. The outline level can
be used to include this paragraph style in the table of contents in addition to
the "standard" header styles. The numbering level that is shown at some
paragraph is not controlled by the outline level of the paragraph style
(specified in the outline level control above) but set for each paragraph
individually using the tab key at the beginning of a line. This works the same
way for paragraph styles that define some outline level and those that
represent body text.
Observed with LibreOffice version 4.2.5.2 and Windows 7.
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