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use the other three styles. All you need to do is to create a suitable list
style and set up the Next Style property in the Organizer page of the
Paragraph Style dialog box so that the Numbering 1 Start paragraph is
followed by the Numbering 1 Cont. style, while the Numbering 1 End
paragraph style is followed by a default style paragraph.
If you only want to apply a list style (that is, the numbering or bullet
symbol and the indentation) then, when the cursor is on the paragraph
to be numbered, double-click on the desired list style.
When creating a list style, you can define up to ten levels of depth for
nested lists. Switch from one level to the other with either the
Promote or the Demote buttons on the Bullets and Numbering
toolbar or by pressing the Tab key (one level down) or Shift+Tab key
combination (one level up) or by right clicking on the list element and
select Up One Level or Down One Level from the pop up menu.
Restarting the numbering
When creating more than one numbered list of the same type within
the same chapter, Writer applies progressive numbering to all the lists.
Sometimes this is exactly what you want, while at other times you want
to restart the numbering. To do so, either click on the Restart
numbering icon on the Bullets and Numbering toolbar or right-
click on the first element of the list and select Restart numbering.
Modifying styles
Writer provides several predefined styles, but you may find that they
do not fit in one way or another your preferences. You can build your
own library of custom styles to use in place of the predefined ones, or
you can modify the existing styles. OOo offers four mechanisms to
modify both both predefined and custom (user-created) styles:
• Update a style from a selection.
• Load or copy styles from another document or template.
• Change a style using the Style dialog box.
• Use AutoUpdate (paragraph and frame styles only).
The first two methods are discussed in “Update Style (from a
selection)” on page 193 and “Load Styles (from a template or
document)” on page 194, while Chapter 7 (Working with Styles)
discusses at length the process of creating a new style.
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