Lists created by F12 or Shift+F12 are controlled by Bullets & Numbering. The alignment position is set level per level in Position tab, Aligned at field.
Pay special attention to the following points:
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Using (Shift+)F12 is direct formatting (manual formatting); Consequently the settings of Format>Bullets & Numbering apply only to the next list or to the list where the cursor is presently in. This means you must select your existing lists one after the other to change the settings.
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For an obscure reason, your changed settings in Format>Bullets & Numbering are saved neither in your user profile nor in any template (and even less in your document). This is bug tdf#69724 (dating back to 2013).
The end-line is: if you want to indent permanently your lists with custom settings, you must define your own list style.
For that:
- display the style sidepane with
F11 if not already there
- create or modify two list styles (click on the fifth icon from the left in the style toolbar), one for numbered lists, one for bullet lists (or only one if you don’t need the other)
- for this answer, I assume that Numbering 123 and Bullet - will do (Warning! names are slightly different in 6.4.7.2)
- change the settings in their
Position tab
- create or mofify two paragraph styles (click on the first icon from the left in the style toolbar), one for numbered lists, one for bullet lists (or only one if you don’t need the other)
- for this answer, I assume that Numbering 1 and List 1 will do
- in their
Outline & Numbering tab, associate the paragraph style with the corresponding list style through the Numbering style drop-down menu: select Numbering 123 for Numbering 1, Bullet - for List 1-
These styles are saved in the document. To have them available for new documents, save them in the default template or a template of your choice.
When you want a list, no longer use …+F12, but format your list item with either List 1 or Numbering 1. To revert to a non-list paragraph, style it with Text Body which is the standard paragraph style for text (this is not Default Paragraph Style which is reserved to set common attributes for all other styles).
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