How to remove leading dot from heading

[Tech101]

Using LO/Writer 7.003.

The document has headings.
The style is heading 2.
The headings have a leading “.” like “.First Heading” without the quotes.

There is no table of contents in the document.

I have searched the help and the Net and cannot find any info. The problem is document specific because I use headings and styles in other documents without any problems.

Here is a snip showing paragraph, the heading then paragraph.

How do I change “.First Heading” to “First Heading”?

(just enabled image display - ajlittoz)

[gabix]

The problem is document specific

Then share the document or a sample demonstrating the problem.

[Tech101]

I re-edited the original post to include an image.

[gabix]

Images can only show that there is a problem, but cannot give a clue to the reason. Once again: share the file.

[ajlittoz]

Only a guess without the document.

Go to Tools>Chapter Numbering.

In Position tab, you probably changed Numbering followed by Tab stop to Nothing for level 2 at least.

In Numbering tab, see if Separator Before or After contains a dot and remove it (again at least for level 2).

By the way, if your Heading 2 should be separated from preceding and subsequent text, it is much better to include this vertical spacing in Indents & Spacing tab of Heading 2 instead of using empty paragraphs. You are then guaranteed taht absolutely all your Heading 2 will exhibit the same vertical spacing (no chance to forget the top or bottom spacing) and you can tune this spacing from a single location for immediate change over the whole document.

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[Tech101]

Chapter numbering ==> numbering tab, “Separator after” contained a dot. I removed it and the dot before the heading disappeared.

I would not have discovered that in a million years.

Thanks for your help.

[Tech101]

I need more than 5 points to upvote.

[ajlittoz]

You now have them as someone deemed your question “interesting” and upvoted it.

[arkadian]

That makes two of us. No idea where that dot appeared from. Mine was a .doc file which was changed to .odt

[ChrisMurphy]

This worked for me. Same story as others - no idea how it got there & wouldn’t have found solution without this page. Thanks!

[JAGolkin]

Excellent!!! Many thanks for the answer. The dot just appeared in a .doc file and even printed with them. I had no idea what it was and how to get rid of them. This page was a lifesaver.