[ubuntu-za] Libre Office Auto Correct features are destroying me

[Jan Greeff]

This irritates me also, I have found ways to get out of it, but you need 
to repeat the process every time you insert a new number. Hopefully 
there's a better way out.

Jan Greeff



On 23/04/2012 13:46, ubuntupunk at gmail.com wrote:
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> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 1:30 PM, ubuntupunk at gmail.com 
> <mailto:ubuntupunk at gmail.com> <ubuntupunk at gmail.com 
> <mailto:ubuntupunk at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Robin Bownes <robin at bownes.co.za
>     <mailto:robin at bownes.co.za>> wrote:
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>         On 23/04/2012 11:34, ubuntupunk at gmail.com
>         <mailto:ubuntupunk at gmail.com> wrote:
>>         Hi all,
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>>         Sorry to bother with this issue, but the lack of
>>         user-friendliness in LibreOffice is killing me.
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>>         Whenever I try to write up a document with numbering like so
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>>         1.1
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>>         1.2
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>>         1.3
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>>         LO insists on autoformating the paragraphs incorrectly. There
>>         appears to be no way of turning off this feature in Tools >
>>         Options.
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>>         More evidence of the "Dark Side' of Open Source
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>>         D.
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>         Hi David,
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>         In some ways, I also get frustrated with Libre Office, but
>         I've generally found that the problem stems from me assuming
>         that the programme works, or should work like MS Word, which I
>         used and trained for years.
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>         When you say that, "LO insists on autoformating the paragraphs
>         incorrectly." when you apply Outline Numbering, what is it
>         that you mean exactly.
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>         I must say, that although outline numbering doesn't work the
>         exactly the same as in Word, I have, after some relearning,
>         found it to work pretty well.
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>         Let me know what the problem is more precisely and I'll see
>         whether I can help.
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>         Robin
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>     If the feature actually worked, there wouldn't be a problem. I
>     don't have time to go into what exactly is wrong with the feature,
>     but it is really bad when it comes to legal documents.
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>     All I want to do is turn off the feature so that I can do the
>     paragraph numbering manually. I don't need MS features, which
>     would be nice, just freedom to choose how the document will be
>     handled.
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>     D.
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> check the pic
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>     *David Robert Lewis*
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>     *Landline 021 448 0021*
>     *Fax 086 246 9859*
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> -- 
> *David Robert Lewis*
> *PO BOX 4398*
> *Cape Town*
> *8000*
> *South Africa*
> *
> *
> *Mobile 082 425 1454*
> *Landline 021 448 0021*
> *Fax 086 246 9859*
> *Skype david.robert.lewis*
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