Outline Numbering with Paragraph and List style

[cervenak]

Hi,
I have spent a lot of time to understand Outline numbering in Writer styles. This is what I have done.

LIST STYLE

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I created one List Style named “myOutline”
For Level 1-3 I have set up Outlined numbering as follows

Level 1 → I.

Level 2 → A.

Level 3 → i.

PARAGRAPH STYLES

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I created nine Paragraph styles “Heading 1-9”
Where StyleOutline&Numbering > Outline is set up as follows

Heading 1 → Level 1

Heading 2 → Level 2

…

Heading 9 → Level 9

And for all “Heading 1-9” I have set up Numbering style “myOutline”

RESULT

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Heading 1 in my document assign Level 1 correctly but Heading 2 assign also Level 1 and numbering continuing with Heading 1. See this.

I. Heading 1

II. Heading 1

III. Heading 1

IV. Heading 2 // Expecting A. Heading 2

Do you have any explanation of this behavior or do you have any solution how to setup Outline numbering via Styles. Note that “Tools > Outline numbering … “ works fine. But why not solution with Styles?

Thanks a lot.

[tenntexj]

I am not qualified to be telling anyone how to use this program but I did spend a lot of time trying to make outline lists styles.

Below is the link to my question on this subject. If you get there check out the second answer I made to my own question where I talked about making outline list styles.

Changing starting number value on a list without affecting other lists

I only recently switched from Word to LO writer and have run into something I cannot figure out. In Word on numbered lists you can check either “start new list” or “continue from previous list” and then enter into the “set value to” field whatever you want the starting value to be and that change will not affect any preceding list in the document I have not found a way to do the same thing in LO writer. No matter what I do, when I change the starting value on one list, it affects other l…

[oweng]

I have written a few answers on this site about ordered lists and headings and how outline numbering relates to each. In short, for headings use the Tools > Outline Numbering facility, rather than list style (which as the name suggests are designed for use in lists).