Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 86492
Pasted numbered list will be continued from "source" list
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:44:00 UTC
I find myself spending soo much time on the simple task of numbered lists and bullets, but especially numbering that I want to raise an issue. There are so many issues with this component that I can't begin to describe everything but here are the basics. The basic problem is that the numbering component is too "dumb". This becomes apparent especially when you copy and paste stuff from other lists. Be aware that I always saves .doc. Some of the issues * When you copy an item from another numbered list to the start or end of a numbered list, the number used for the new item is of the old list * If you press reset on a fucked up list item like this, nothing happens. It just resets the interface pane for the numbering popup. It *should* reset the item to follow the numbering of the current list * If you in desperation manually enter a number in the numbering pane startup field, it has no effect. It doesn't work Just play around with it, and you will see it's fucked up. Anyway, some of the reasons that make me scream at my computer and wish for Microsoft Word. And sorry about the venting Good luck. Marc
Oh yeah, * If you copy an entire list to a new location in your document, it just continues numbering from the last item on the copied list in stead of resetting to 1. And there seems to be no way to easily reset to 1. Because reset doesn't work. * If you have a list like this 1. fdfsfs 2. fsdfs d * fjsfgjdg * fsfgsdds next item next item isn't 3 but 1 like it should be Cheers, Marc
@mschipperheyn1 : I suggest you to always save in odt and *export* (save as) in doc only when you need to share your document. It is not sure that doc format can handle all features of ODF.
Hello Marc, please only submit one problem per issue (see http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/basic_rules.html). And please watch your language; the community is also attended by people who did not reach adult age. Thanks for your patience. In this issue, we will now care about your first mentioned issue, which truly is a defect. Second mentioned problem cannot be reproduced. When I have pasted a "faulty" numbered bock, I just click into the first paragraph and then click the "Restart numbering" button in the "Numbering and bullets" toolbar. Also the third mentioned problem cannot be reproduced. Setting a new start value in Format.Paragraph.Numbering works fine. Maybe you have a problem with a special case, so I would request you to submit a new issue regarding this and attach the special document to it.
MRU->OD: against the description in aspect 7.8 in the spec http://specs.openoffice.org/writer/numbering/NumberingBullet1.sxw, a numbered "block" of text will be continue the numbering when pasted into a different place of the document.
Yes, the initially described behavior on copy-and-paste list items is a very ugly defect. Thus, I am raising its priority to P2 and I will try to fix it for OOo 3.0
Some other weird side effects. Again, perhaps only because I'm using .doc as a document format: * When you have an erronous list 1. item 2. item 3. item 6. item 7. item If I go into the numbering pane and try to select a new starting number for 6., sometimes it works (never when the number is 1) but when I try to manally set it to 4 it makes it 10 (6+4). Extremely weird.
Due to limited resources re-target to OOo 3.1
Due to limited resources re-target to next major release OOo 3.2
fixed in cws sw32numbf01 - changed files; /sw/inc/doc.hxx, /sw/inc/editsh.hxx, /sw/source/core/ndcopy.cxx, /sw/source/core/doc/docnum.cxx, /sw/source/core/edit/ednumber.cxx, /sw/source/ui/shells/textsh1.cxx, /sw/source/ui/wrtsh/wrtsh1.cxx, rev. 275401
OD->MRU: Checked in internal installation set of cws sw32numbf01 - please verify.
Verified in CWS sw32numbf01 - the first problem of "copying a list item to another list" has been fixed by this issue.
Checked in DEV300m59.