I’m using LO fresh 4.4.
Is there any link between the bullets button and the list styles? List styles seem a great way to have document-wide control over the bullets, but having a button that slaps on any ol’ style is really unhelpful. Is there any way to link the button with, say, “List 1” and the numbered button with “Numbering 1” or some such?
There is a relationship between list styles and the toolbar list buttons Bullets on/off and Numbering on/off however it is not straightforward. In simple terms (v3.3-4.4) the toolbar buttons use the same:
… while these aspects are different:
content.xml (as style L1, L2, etc.) while the list styles are defined in styles.xml (as List_20_1, Numbering_20_1, etc.)I believe there is an effort by the Design team to change the toolbar buttons to use styles by default. This may be forthcoming in v4.5+.
I recommend to have a look at the free guides, which you can download from http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/
When you work with the great feature of Styles in Writer, keep in mind that direct formatting overrules Styles. You can remove direct formatting by right click and Clear direct formatting.
The bullet button takes typically the List 1 style.
Numbering 1 is a list style but instead of bullets numbers are used.
Always useful to promote the manual, but I do not consider this to be an answer to my question. The manual is nearly 500pages long and AFAICS makes no reference to a link between the buttons and the styles.
For others’ reference, the relevant sections of the manual appear to be p88 ch3, “Creating numbered or bulleted lists” and p241 ch7 “Working with list styles”.
The bullet button does not in any install I’ve seen link to List style 1.