Re: [users] Still stuggling with styles and numbering

2005-12-03 Thread J. Magalhães Cruz
I am reposting a previous message, because, after 3 days the original message could not be delivered to the mailing list server. At this time (several other messages have been posted on the same thread), it does not add much to help Alan, except to support him, emphasizing that the way OOo handl

Re: [users] Still stuggling with styles and numbering

2005-11-26 Thread Guido Pinkernell
Am Dienstag, 22. November 2005 17:22 schrieb Dan Lewis: > On Monday 21 November 2005 12:49 pm, Guido Pinkernell wrote: > > Am Montag, 21. November 2005 16:46 schrieb Alan Chandler: > > > Guido Pinkernell writes: > > At least it makes sense to me. ;) > > > > Guido > > Please allow me to ask a s

Re: [users] Still stuggling with styles and numbering

2005-11-26 Thread Alan Chandler
On Saturday 26 Nov 2005 12:31, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 07:07 +, Alan Chandler wrote: > > On Tuesday 22 Nov 2005 16:22, Dan Lewis wrote: > > > Please allow me to ask a stupid question. Have you studied the > > > chapters on Styles in both the Getting Started Guid

Re: [users] Still stuggling with styles and numbering

2005-11-26 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 07:07 +, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Tuesday 22 Nov 2005 16:22, Dan Lewis wrote: > > > > > Please allow me to ask a stupid question. Have you studied the chapters > > on Styles in both the Getting Started Guide and the Writer's Guide? Is so, > > what do we need to do to

Re: [users] Still stuggling with styles and numbering

2005-11-26 Thread Alan Chandler
On Wednesday 23 Nov 2005 00:18, john fisher wrote: > Alan, > Your jpg shows an indented paragraph style with a negative first line > indent ( outdent). It's numbered at outline level 2 ( 1.2 ) > > This will work fine if you modify Heading2 with the required > indents/outdents, and then go to outlin

Re: [users] Still stuggling with styles and numbering

2005-11-23 Thread john fisher
Alan, Your jpg shows an indented paragraph style with a negative first line indent ( outdent). It's numbered at outline level 2 ( 1.2 ) This will work fine if you modify Heading2 with the required indents/outdents, and then go to outline numbering and set level 2 ( which will be attached to Headin

Re: [users] Still stuggling with styles and numbering

2005-11-23 Thread Dan Lewis
On Monday 21 November 2005 12:49 pm, Guido Pinkernell wrote: > Am Montag, 21. November 2005 16:46 schrieb Alan Chandler: > > Guido Pinkernell writes: > > > Am Montag, 21. November 2005 14:39 schrieb Alan Chandler: > > > > ... > > > > >> 3) Following on from the second question - the tools/outline n

Re: [users] Still stuggling with styles and numbering

2005-11-22 Thread Alan Chandler
On Monday 21 Nov 2005 21:33, Alan Chandler wrote: > I think part of the problem is there there is something wrong with the > implementation (see below), and the help files assume you already know what > you are doing. Just as an example of the unintuitive mess you can get > into, I attach a littl

Re: [users] Still stuggling with styles and numbering

2005-11-21 Thread Alan Chandler
On Monday 21 Nov 2005 16:17, J. Magalhães Cruz wrote: > Alan, > > I think that the numbering/outlining implementation of OOo is > unnecessarily complicated and rather unintuitive! > Some months ago, I initiated a thread in this list about this same subject > (follow the thread on > http://www.open

Re: [users] Still stuggling with styles and numbering

2005-11-21 Thread Guido Pinkernell
Am Montag, 21. November 2005 16:46 schrieb Alan Chandler: > Guido Pinkernell writes: > > Am Montag, 21. November 2005 14:39 schrieb Alan Chandler: > > ... > > >> 3) Following on from the second question - the tools/outline numbering > >> allows you to allocate a style to each level, where as the >

Re: [users] Still stuggling with styles and numbering

2005-11-21 Thread J. Magalhães Cruz
Alan, I think that the numbering/outlining implementation of OOo is unnecessarily complicated and rather unintuitive! Some months ago, I initiated a thread in this list about this same subject (follow the thread on http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=users&msgId=2047526; see belo

Re: [users] Still stuggling with styles and numbering

2005-11-21 Thread Alan Chandler
Guido Pinkernell writes: Am Montag, 21. November 2005 14:39 schrieb Alan Chandler: ... 3) Following on from the second question - the tools/outline numbering allows you to allocate a style to each level, where as the format/bullets and numbering doesn't. How do the format of list numbering g

Re: [users] Still stuggling with styles and numbering

2005-11-21 Thread Guido Pinkernell
Am Montag, 21. November 2005 14:39 schrieb Alan Chandler: > 1) What is the difference between outline numbering and list numbering. > Are they completely independent of one another. Completely different, completely independent. Outline: Chapters, headlines, title, subtitle etc etc. List: A sequ

[users] Still stuggling with styles and numbering

2005-11-21 Thread Alan Chandler
Still struggling with styles and numbering of paragraphs in writer. I am getting closer to getting a complete mental picture of what is happening, but just when I think I have it nailed - I try something and it doesn't work. I am clearly doing something strange in that I have managed to crash