Writer/NumberingEnhancementforMSInteroperability

Numbering&Bullets in the writer

Numbering or Bullet is a special character appeared at the front of a paragraph. In writer, the key concept of Numbering/Bullet is the numbering rule. Numbering rule is a numbering calculating rule. There are two types of numbering rule in writer. One is Outline Numbering Rule , the other is Normal Numbering Rule.

There are only one Outline Numbering Rule, lots of Normal Numbering Rule in one document. Generally, a Normal Numbering Rule is applied to a paragraph when Numbering/Bullet is used to format a paragraph. Numbering rule defines a serious of attributes for formatting Numbering/Bullet character. These attributes are: Type(Bullet, Picture Bullet and Numbering), Level(Level 1 – Level 10, a number rule have 10 levels), Style, Size, Color, Font, Space, etc.

There are three ways to use numbering to format a paragraph.

1) Outline Number Rule can be configured through "Outline Numbering" dialog. User can configure a serious of options for each outline level through Outline Numbering dialog, a predefined paragraph style, such as "heading 1", can be bound to an outline level, then when user uses this paragraph style to format a paragraph, the Outline Number Rule is applied to this paragraph automatically.

2) "Style and Formatting" dialog lists all writer's predefined numbering rules, user can apply those list style directly to a paragraph, the list styles in this dialog are Normal Numbering Rules.

3) "Bullets and Numbering" dialog, user can use this dialog to create a customized numbering rule then apply it to a paragraph. The name of the applied customized numbering rules can not be controlled by the user.