Writer Guide

Assigning styles to shortcut keys
You can configure shortcut keys to quickly assign styles in your
document. Some shortcuts are predefined, such as Ctrl+1 for the
Heading 1 paragraph style and Ctrl+2 for Heading 2 . You can modify
these shortcuts and create your own. See Chapter 17 (Customizing
Writer) for details.
Defining a hierarchy of headings
Tools > Outline Numbering defines the hierarchy of headings in a
document. Headings can be numbered or not; typically the first-level
headings in a book-length document are the next level of headings
after the chapter titles, which may be numbered, but lower-level
headings are not numbered. Some chapter title and heading styles
(such as those commonly used in engineering documents) number each
chapter and heading level, for example 1, 1.1, 1.2, 2, 2.1, and so on.
When chapters or sections are added or deleted, the numbering is
automatically changed.
Paragraph styles are the key to OOo’s outline numbering feature. The
default paragraph styles assigned to outline levels are the heading
styles supplied with OOo: Heading 1 , Heading 2 , and so on. However,
you can substitute any styles you wish, including custom (user-defined)
styles.
The headings defined using the outline numbering feature can be used
for more than the table of contents (described in Chapter 12). For
example, fields are commonly used to display headings in headers and
footers of pages (see Chapter 14, Working with Fields), and Writer can
send the outline to Impress to use as the basis for a presentation (see
the Impress Guide for details).
Choosing paragraph styles for outline levels
If you are using the default heading styles for the headings in your
outline, and you do not want to use heading numbering, you do not
need to do anything on the Outline Numbering dialog box. The default
outline numbering scheme uses the default heading styles (Heading 1,
Heading 2, and so on).
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