OpenOffice Outline - making it stick

[Brett I. Holcomb]

Thank you.  I knew there had to be a way.  

Roger Oberholtzer wrote:

> If you do 'shift-enter' after the last real outline line instead of the
> usual 'enter', you will be on a new line (1B), but will be
> considered a continuation of the last item. You can do this for as many
> lines as you want. Then, just do a normal enter when you want to continue
> with the outline. This is the same way you get a new paragraph in a
> bulleted list without a new bullet.
> 
> On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 08:28:39 -0600
> Mike Reinehr <cmr at amsent.com> wrote:
> 
>> I've used this with paragraph formatting, not outlining. With OOo it
>> seems
>> 
>> that the trick to modifying the default format for a document is through
>> the styles menu. Open Format/Styles/Catalog and you will see a pull-down
>> menu of paragraph, character, frame, page & numbering styles. For each of
>> these, then, there are a number of options, default being the one in
>> effect for a new document. You either can then modify the default style,
>> or create & name a new one.
>> 
>> For your problem, I think the solution would be to select Numbering
>> Styles, and then either modify or creat a new numbering style that will
>> be the default for your entire document. Whereas, what you are doing (and
>> I did, as well) is selecting a style for a specific paragraph, which ends
>> with that paragraph.
>> 
>> Hope this helps.
>> 
>> mike
>> 
>> On Tuesday 18 November 2003 10:15 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
>> > I'm running OpenOffice 1.1 and am finding that if I set up the
>> > numbering for an outline (i.e. level 1 I, II, ..; level 2 A,B,..; etc)
>> > under format->outline numbering or Tools->Outline numbering that it
>> > doesn't
>> > stick.  If you break the outline to add text as in
>> >
>> > I. blahlbha
>> > A. bblah
>> > 1 blah
>> > B more lbah
>> > Notes to myself so I don't forget
>> > II. blah balh
>> > Here, instead of A I get the default 1 again.  When I got to
> 

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