On 3 June 2010 02:20, Barbara Duprey <b...@onr.com> wrote: > Try this: > > * Click in the textbox. > * Ctrl-A to select all text. > * On the formatting toolbar, click the bullet list icon.
This may be the problem. On the Formatting toolbar, there is neither a Bullet List icon nor can one be added from the Visible Icons list. This is OOo Impress 3.2 based on go-oo from Ubuntu, so something may have been changed from upstream. > * The text should now be simple text, not considered a bulleted list > at all. > > I've attached a modified file so you can see what I see (I'm pretty sure the > list will accept a .odp attachment). The text is still identified as being > in Outline 1 style, Impress doesn't seem to have anything like the Writer > Default paragraph style. And by default, each of the former list items is a > single paragraph, but you can break them apart. At this point, you can deal > with any of the pieces as you choose. Does this meet your needs? I can't see > how to create a new style, but then I very seldom use Impress so I could > easily be missing something. > This does meet my needs in a work-around type of way, but my intention is to actually learn to use the thing! > Ah, I see what you mean! Using my modified file, I tried to add a bulleted > list below the text in the first of the old bullets, and tried to apply a > different outline style to that list. I didn't get bullets, and the style > reverted to Outline 1 -- though the new list was indented from the old item > text. Definitely has a mind of its own, doesn't it! > I wouldn't say that it has a mind of it's own, rather, that it is immature software. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
