LibreOffice style editing

[Stephen Partington]

I will second the occasional need to sanitize a block of text with a text
editor.

you could also remove all list options, review what the text block looks
like and then reapply.

you could also upload to excel online or google docs and see if they treat
it any more reasonably then export as an ods which may help you.



On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 8:27 AM Bob Elzer <bob.elzer at gmail.com> wrote:

> You could copy the section and paste it into a text editor, delete it from
> the document then copy the text  and paste it back in.
>
> Not the solution you're looking, but sometimes the correct answer takes
> too long to hunt down.
>
> Save the original so you can figure it out at a more convenient time.
>
> You seem to have found the most obvious ways of fixing this, I find
> sometimes it is caused by something from another section of the document
> that carries over to the section you're trying to fix.
>
> If the data is not sensitive maybe you could upload the section and we
> could all work on an answer.
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 25, 2018, 11:55 PM der.hans <PLUGd at lufthans.com> wrote:
>
>> moin moin,
>>
>> I'm importing some documents into LibreOffice and one of the paragraph
>> styles is getting numbered. I do not want the numbering.
>>
>> The style is also getting bold and border, which I can disable via
>> the style editor.
>>
>> Via the style editor changing Outline & Numbering doesn't get rid of the
>> numbering. It doesn't look like it's enabled in that tab.
>>
>> Under Organizer there's a Contains paragraph that includes
>> "Numbering(Outline) + 1"
>>
>> I tried changing it to inherit from a style that does not get numbering,
>> the numbering stayed.
>>
>> I found the Properties editor and the toggle for Numbered List ( click or
>> hit F12 ), which does get rid of the number. It leaves the leading period
>> and space, which also need to go.
>>
>> Any ideas for how to get rid of thіs numbering?
>>
>> Alternatively, and probably better, any idea how to select all items in
>> this style, so I can easily change them to a new style? Even better if I
>> can make that change automagically :)
>>
>> ciao,
>>
>> der.hans
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