Numbered lists in Libre / Openoffice writer

[tortillasoup]

I'm a bit frustrated by this and I'm not sure if this is a bug or I just don't know what I'm doing. When you create a numbered list in Libre/open office writer if you decide to add/remove a #'d item, it won't update subsequent numbers in that list. I tried the "restart numbering" but it only does it for a single line item and not all of them in that number list.

Example
1. Dog
2. Cat
3. Pig
4. Mouse
5. Horse
6. Squirrel



Change:
1. Dog
2. Cat
3. Pig
4. Mouse
5. Horse
6. Squirrel


Expected result:
1. Dog
2. Cat
3. Pig
4. Horse
5. Squirrel

Actual result:
1. Dog
2. Cat
3. Pig
5. Horse
6. Squirrel


or if I'm adding...
1. Dog
2. Cat
3. Pig
4. Horse
5. Mouse <-ADD
5. Squirrel


Expected:
1. Dog
2. Cat
3. Pig
4. Horse
5. Mouse
6. Squirrel


Actually happens:
1. Dog
2. Cat
3. Pig
4. Horse
5. Mouse
5. Squirrel


Using the restart numbering only works on a single line at a time for some reason and I can't figure out how to do it for the entire number list.

 

[Jodell88]

What version are you using? Works fine with 5.0.4.2

 

[tortillasoup]

I'm using Apache Open Office 4.1.2. Hard to imagine that something like this would slip through. I'm downloading Libre office 4.4.7.

yeah had much better luck with Libre Office 4.4.7. No longer a problem.

 

[lxskllr]

As a PSA... OpenOffice is dead people. Don't use it, don't recommend it to others. It's not just another flavor of the same thing. Most of the developers left during the fork, and their new backers have pretty much quit. It's a dead product. Forget it ever existed.

 

[tortillasoup]

As a PSA... OpenOffice is dead people. Don't use it, don't recommend it to others. It's not just another flavor of the same thing. Most of the developers left during the fork, and their new backers have pretty much quit. It's a dead product. Forget it ever existed.

ok but libre office is cool though, right?

 

[lxskllr]

ok but libre office is cool though, right?

Assuming it does what you need, yes. It's all I've used since it existed. Fun fact, before the fork most(all?) GNU/Linux distros used a fork called go-oo(Go-OpenOffice), which had some patches Sun/Oracle wouldn't incorporate in Ooo. After the fork to libreoffice, the go-oo patches were incorporated, and the go-oo project folded. For GNU/Linux users, libreoffice is closer to straight lineage to the past than apache open office is.

 

[mikeymikec]

I've been using LibreOffice 5 on Windows for a good few months now without any problems.