Documentation/UserGuide/Writer/Text

Working with text

Either the toolbars, sidebar and menus (normal and contextual) offer options to modify text. It is possible to modify the paragraph as a whole or the selected text with Format → Paragraph/Character or with a right click → Paragraph/Character. The available options are clear and will be discussed when talking about paragraph and character styles.

Both the Format menu and the right click offer an option to modify the page, adding for example headers and footers, page size, and so fourth. But it is important to note that these options only modify the corresponding page style: in Writer there is no direct formatting for pages, page formatting can only be done through styles. For this reason, we will leave the analysis about how to format pages to the corresponding section for page styles in this guide.

Numbered list and bullets

On the format toolbar there are two buttons that toggle numbered lists or bullets.

It is important to note that it is better to avoid the use of numbered list in numbered chapters. In another section of this guide we will see how to number chapters and give an outline to a document.

It is also possible to toggle the numbering on a particular paragraph pressing  F12 , while  ⇧ Shift  +  F12  toggles the bullets.

With the numbering or the bullets active, a contextual toolbar will be presented

The buttons, numbered on the screenshot, perform the following actions:

1. Numbering (can be used to change bullets to numbering)
2. Bullets (can be used to change numbering to bullets)
3. Disable
4. Promote one level
5. Demote one level
6. Promote one level with sub-points
7. Demote one level with sub-points
8. Insert an unnumbered entry
9. Move line up
10. Move line down
11. Move line up with all its sub-points
12. Move line down with all its sub-points
13. Restart numbering
14. Properties of the list

The options available when pressing the last button are the same available when editing a list style, so they will be discussed later.

The "sub-points" mentioned earlier are to give "levels" to a numbered list or bullet, building list like the following example

1. First
   1. Sub First
2. Second
   1. Sub Second
      1. Sub Sub Second

To change the level of one line in the list, it is possible to use button 4 and 7, or with the cursor at the beginning of the line  Tab ⇆  and  ⇧ Shift  +  Tab ⇆ .