parts of numbering disappear

Sascha · Guest

Hi!

I have a problem with the chapter numbering, hope you can help me. I´m using the German version of OO, maybe some of the functions have different names, but I hop you get an impression of what my problem is.

I activated chapter numbering, assigned Heading 1 to Level 1 of the numbering, Heading 2 to Level 2, etc. Everything worked fine until three days ago. I opened my OO-Document and suddenly some parts of the numbering have disappeared. There are blank spaces where the numbers shoud be (white spaces, not grey). The Table of Contents also shows only blanks where the numbers should be. It seems OO still uses the numbering, because the order of the following chapters is correct, it just doesn´t show the numbers anymore.

Ideas anyone?

antonbijl · Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2004 3:05 am Post subject:

Sascha

Interesting. When you go to Tools - Outline Numbering, what do you see in the preview pane on the right-hand side? Do you still see numbers next to all headings, or are some of them missing here too?

Maybe this will provide a clue.

Anton

Guest · Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2004 9:08 am Post subject:

Hi Anton,

I just checked the Tools - Outline Numbering - Menu, the preview pane shows all numbers correctly.

Anyway, i found a way to restore the numbers: When I move the cursor to the last character of the paragraph that comes right before the heading, press the delete key so that the heading becomes part of the paragraph, press enter again and reassign the Heading 1-Style to the text, the number reappears.

Although this workaround provides help for now, I´d still like to know if there is a bug in OO...

Thx for the help
Sascha

ftack · Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2004 11:07 am Post subject:

Obviously, this seems a difficult -to-reproduce problem. Anyway, in reporting suspisions of bugs, please provide details on the version you are using, the operating system, configuration.

stormoog · Newbie Joined: 28 Jun 2006 Posts: 1

I had the same problem in OOo 2.0.2, Linux. Solved it by entering a hard page break before the heading with the missing number. (Headings should make their own pagebreaks in my document already.)

konsultor · Last edited by konsultor on Wed Jul 12, 2006 6:46 am; edited 1 time in total

In OOo 2.01 (the Linspire CNR version of 17 Feb 2006) I find that the paragraph numbers associated with heading1, 2, 3, etc. can come and go at what appears to be random. Sometimes formating the paragraph to default, then again as a heading will restore the number, but it might not be the correct number for the sequence it is in. Other times the line appears to be formated as a heading, but there is no number visible in either the print or web layout. Clicking on the toolbar button for numbering has occasionally brought back the right number, even cycling among outline number, list number, and no number.
/Tools/OutlineNumbering doesn't show paragraph numbers for headings 2 and 3, the ones that vanished.
VERY frustrating. Can't avoid numbers as the documents are for a government contract.

On Linspire 5.0.59 and KDE 3.2.2.

konsultor

In my case, with OOo 2.0.1 on Linux, the missing header numbering was caused by the configuration of /Tools/OutlineNumbering. These settings override the formating entered in the Stylist for HeadingX.
Don't know how the /T/ON became different from the Stylist settings, but it may have something to do with the document's origin in MSword.
Have created an Issue, FYI, with a suggestion for the Help text.

Hagar Delest

konsultor · Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 5:53 am Post subject:

Thank you, Hagar. Beautifully clear explanation. How do we get that into the Help files?

Hagar Delest · Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 6:20 am Post subject:

You're right, it's not clear at all in the help files, so I've posted an issue : http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=67281.

You can add [Solved] in your first post title, it helps to spot the issues that don't need further attention.
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