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It always works. This isn't a work-around or a "fix", it's the way the
program is designed to work (or that's the way it looks). When you are
working with interrupted numbered lists, they leave the flow up to the
writer. I get around it by defining different styles for the different
types of list elements. One style would have a number, the following
style would not, then I tag the paragraphs appropriately and all works.
There are some features that I would like to see in OOo (such as
changing to sentence case, etc.) that I miss from Frame, but they are minor.
> So there isn't a dependable workaround. There's an easy fix that can be
> re-applied as necessary, but it doesn't always work.
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mike McCallister
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 2:15 PM
>> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
>> Subject: RE: Suggestions for free/cheap/Open Source
>> documentation forWebSite&PDF?
>>
>> To the extent that I've had trouble with numbered lists in OO
>> Writer, it was nearly always solved with a right-click >
>> Bullets/Numbering > Restart Numbering. Unlike Word, where it
>> often grays out that option (among other puzzling behavior).
>> Occasionally, if I'd create in Writer and save as Word for
>> editing, the numbering would come back wonky. Still solvable
>> with a couple of Restart Numbering operations...
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Carter Campbell
Technical Writer
lists -at- soph-text -dot- com
Calgary Alberta
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