I am trying to add an appendix to my word document, and I'd like my figure numbering to restart with the appendix. I have set up a multi level list where I have an Appendix chapter heading (image a) and I have a style set up for this heading (image b). But, I can't tell the figure reference to find this style (image c), and therefore I get an error in the caption (image d). How can I fix this / use a work around?
Image A: multi-level list resets after my level 1 list, so it starts after my last chapter.
Image B: it is linked to a new heading style called "Heading 1: Appendix"
Image C: I can only reference it to Heading 1-9; my new style "Heading 1: Appendix" does not come up as an option
Image D: If I set it to Heading 1, then all the figures start with my last Chapter number (5). So it's just broken.
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Let say I have 3 paragraphs in one page. Now if I add few new sentences in 1st Paragraph, all 2 Paragraphs below the first, will move downwards in a continuous fashion.
However I want all these 3 paragraphs will start in a new page. Let say, first Paragraph will start in page #1, second Paragraph in page #2 and third Paragraph in page #3. Now if I add new lines in the first paragraph, the other 2 paragraphs below it will stay in the same pages respectively, until the first paragraph eventually become large enough to occupy first 2 pages. When that would happen, the second paragraph will move to page #3 and third paragraph will move to page #4 i.e. all paragraph will move in a discrete fashion such that each of them will start from a new page.
Is there any way to achieve the same in Libre-office?
Any pointer will be highly appreciated.
To make LibreOffice insert a page break before every paragraph, you can modify the paragraph style (or the paragraph properties) accordingly.
To modify your paragraphs 1-3 as described, select them, then select menu Format -> Paragraph to open the paragraph options. Select the "Text Flow" tab and under "Breaks", select "Insert", Type "Page", Position "Before".
To modify the default paragraph style accordingly, hit F11 to open the styles list, right-click on "Default style" and select "Modify". Again, a paragraph properties window will appear, but the modifications will affect every paragraph in your document, so this approach may lead to strange results.
The best way would be to define a custom paragraph style with the Page Break set as described, and assign that style to your paragraphs 1-3.
This is called a Page Break and the easiest way to insert it is CTRL+Enter.
I have an example document that uses nested numbered lists that are continued (the sample document is much simplified, but it shows the same problem).
When I want the last list item to continue the numbering at the same (very first) level, the indentation changes and the number is not what it should be.
Maybe I just don't understand the concepts as the online documentation is very poor.
It could be a bug in list management, also.
So here is how the numbering looks like before trying to fix the last number (item marked red):
And here is how it looks after I tried to continue the numbering for the last list item (item marked red).
I expected the item to be "2.":
Unfortunately I have no idea how to provide the test document.
Alternate explanation of the problem
If I have two concurrent numbered lists (outlines), how would I format such avoiding direct formatting as much as possible?
Example:
1) First Step of some procedure A (A1), possibly with sub-steps
2) Step A2
1) First step of procedure B (B1), possibly with sub-steps
3) Next step of procedure A (A3), ...
...
(the list may change between procedure A and procedure B multiple times)
I suspect that LibreOffice has a bug where the actual numbering format, and not the levels of the outlines determine which counters are incremented.
Even after reading the long manual, I didn't understand the concepts behind.
Can't really explain the strange numbering you encountered, as I was unable to reproduce the effect. However, the "Alternate explanation of the problem" concerning how to provide interleaved lists with proper numbering for each list can be addressed using List Styles.
In the example shown below, I created two new custom List Styles, entitled "Numbering α" and "Numbering β" (with intentionally distinctive notation after each number). To start, I double-clicked Numbering α in the "Styles and Formatting" pane to start an α list.
To start a β list, I got the insertion point to a blank line and double-clicked Numbering β.
Then, whenever I wanted to continue a list or switch from one list to the other, I would double-click the appropriate List Style as needed.
Also, if the insertion point is on an item from, say, list α, double-clicking Numbering β switches the item to the other list, with any subsequent items in each of the lists renumbered as needed. (Note: if a document has a very large quantity of list items, you may need to hit F9 or select Tools > Update > Fields for renumbering to be properly displayed.)
Creating and customizing new lists is pretty straightforward; you can right-clicked in the empty area of the "Styles and Formatting" pane, select "New...", and tweak stuff for a new list as needed. For specific info, see the "Creating custom (new) styles" and "Working with list styles" sections of Writer 6.0 Guide : Chapter 9 - Working with Styles.
I started with the minimalist table of contents title style, in other words based on the ToC Heading template. The important aspect is this template creates a vertical bar to the left of the title (picture below).
I would like to reproduce this for all of my headings throughout my document. My conundrum is the following:
As the base style is ToC Heading and not Heading 1, the table of contents will not reference it.
When I modify the base style from ToC Heading to Heading 1, the table of contents will naturally reference it; however, the vertical bar to the left of the title name is lost, as Heading 1 does not include this bar.
In other words, I want to keep the vertical bar, but it seems that only a ToC Heading base includes this aesthetic.
Picture (vertical bar can be seen in the document; style is based on ToC Heading)
How can I either force the table of contents to recognize my custom style as a heading to reference, or how can I retain the same aesthetic in my custom style after switching to a Heading 1 base?
Thank you!
Found it.
Highlight existing table of contents (highlighting the ToC title will create a menu above and to the left. Clicking on the ":" will highlight everything).
Click reference tab, look at the icon to add a table of contents, and click the arrow for a drop down menu.
Select custom table of contents from here.
Go to format. My custom style appeared there. I selected 1 as its heading level. It is now treated the same as Heading 1.
Add this table of contents and check the option to replace the current table.
Hope that helps someone else!
Adjust List Indents function in Microsoft Word 2007 not working once the list goes past 10.
For heading 09 I open the Adjust List Indents function (By right clicking) and set the "Text Indent at" value to .05. This works. However for every heading after 10 following the exact same steps does not work.
This is not an indent issue, its the alignment in your numbering style. Take some time to study this:
http://wordfaqs.mvps.org/NumberAlignment2007.htm#NumberedLists
A related MS Word skill which will leverage your efforts by an order of magnitude is to learn how to define custom List Styles and assign them to custom Paragraph Styles. There is a very good tutorial here:
http://shaunakelly.com/word/numbering/numbering20072010.html
and the analagous bullet list version:
http://shaunakelly.com/word/bullets/controlbullets20072010.html
I would add one level of efficiency to those tutorials:
You don't need to create a Paragraph Style for each list/bullet level. You only need to assign a Paragraph Style to the first level. When the Paragraph Style is applied to text, the List Style will be applied correctly to all levels based on the indentation of the list items.
When I make a change of style (Font or Paragraph) for a selection of text (example: change the font or text orientation of the selected line), Microsoft Word 2013 apply this change for the whole document in an illogical way.
To fix this issue I need to press 'redo (Ctrl-z)' and word 2013 apply the new style to the text I selected only (it's okay now) but I need to do it every time!
This process has become stressful for me and for my computer CPU especially if I edit a large document because Word 2013 change the style for the whole document.
I never had this problem with Word 2010 or 2007.
If you are applying style from "Style" group of "Home" ribbon, then application of these styles are based on "Style type:" e.g:
1) Paragraph
2) Character
3) Linked (Paragraph and Character)
4) Table
5) List
So, it depends which type of style you are applying and by default it apply on complete target.
The easiest way to save working of CPU and eliminating the stress, is to apply format using "Font" group of "Home" ribbon and if you rapidly use same formatting on different part of document then you can use Ctrl + Shift + C and Ctrl + Shift + V command to copy only formatting of one text to another.