OpenOffice Outline - making it stick

[Brett I. Holcomb]

Thank you.  I'll try this and see what happens.  It shouldn't be that hard 
to try and set a default!

Mike Reinehr 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
>> Format->Outline numbering I see it's reset to default.
>>
>> How do I save this and setup my defaults!!  I haven't found anything in
>> the help yet.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
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