If I look at the List Styles in the Side Bar I see about 10 different List Styles, both ordered and unordered.
However, if I click the arrow on the Toggle Unordered List Toolbar icon, the unordered list styles do not match the unordered list styles I see in the Side Bar (above). In addition, the Toggle Unordered List Toolbar icon divides the List Styles into Bullet Library and Document Bullets.
Why aren’t the List Styles the same in both UI locations?
What is the purpose of the Bullet Library and Document Bullets.
Environment:
Version: 25.8.3.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 580(Build:2)
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.1; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-US (en_US.utf8); UI: en-US
The List styles in the Sidebar > List Styles are List Styles; the others in the icon are not Styles, just lists.
You can link a List Style to a Paragraph Style so you can start and stop lists easily by changing paragraph style. You can create your own custom List Style.
For users familiar with Microsoft Word, ready made lists are available from the icons, just as in Word. To enable consistency, a recent addition to Writer (24.8 tdf#161056 ) has been the ability re-use lists already used in the document, Document Bullets. These are direct formatting.
You might like to read Chapter 12 of the Writer Guide which covers Lists. Chapter 9 has a bit on List Styles also. Download from English documentation | LibreOffice Documentation - LibreOffice User Guides
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I was looking at Edit Style and the tab Outline & List and was wondering how that is used.
Definitely need to do some reading. I’ve been just using the icons on the toolbar. OOooops.
To see the benefits of using styles, the introduction to Designing with LibreOffice is a good way to understand how styles can simplify layout. The link to the Download page is on this page, English documentation II | LibreOffice Documentation - LibreOffice User Guides
Designing with LibreOffice is definitely helping to see the bigger picture. At close to 500 pages, it’ll take a little time to digest. I find the Guides are better as references, same with the online help.