Heading outline numbering not working right

[Girvin Herr]

Greetings.

I am using AOO 4.1.6 under Slackware Linux.

I have a document I created in April 2010 that I am updating and am 
having a problem with "Heading 2" outline numbering. This is a example 
of what I start with:


   1    Introduction
        
   2    General
        
   2.1    Subject
        

When I try to add a new heading between "2" and "2.1", by inserting a 
paragraph after 2's text and changing its style to "Heading 2", I get this:


   1    Introduction
        
   2    General
        
   1.1
   2.1    Subject
        

Where I would expect:

   1    Introduction
        
   2    General
        
   2.1
   2.2    Subject
        

It appears that the new "Heading 2" style is set to start over, but 
examination of the style does not have the restart option set. I tried 
using "Format" > "Default reformatting" on the new "Heading 2" paragraph 
and nothing changes.


The "Heading 2" style "Outline & Numbering" tab has The "Outline level" 
set to "Level 2" and greyed out, and "Numbering" > "Numbering Style" is 
set to "Outline Numbering" and greyed out. "Line numbering" > "Include 
this paragraph in line numbering" is unchecked, but checking it does not 
change the result. "Restart at this paragraph" is unchecked and greyed 
out. "Start with" is set to "1" but greyed out. The "Organizer" tab Has 
"Linkled with" set to "Heading". "Contains" is:
    "Western text: 14 pt + Not Italic + bold + Numbering(Outline) + 2 + 
don't count lines"


Note that if I copy a correct "Heading 2" heading from one part of the 
document to where I need a "Heading 2", the result is correct - with the 
correctly incremented outline number. This only occurs when I create a 
new "Heading 2" paragraph by changing the paragraph style to "Heading 2".


Note also that this happens when I set the paragraph style to "Heading 
3". I get 1.1.1.


Is there somewhere else that I need to change to continue the outline 
numbering from the last Heading?


I do have the copy workaround to this problem, but I would like to 
understand why this is not working correctly or what I am doing wrong.


Thanks.

Girvin Herr

Need help!

[Ben Levitan LLC]

 I use OpenOffice exclusively for my business and really need some help.  It's 
so unstable on Window 10 that I'm ready to give up.  I've reloaded it a number 
of times but still very flaky.  I do a lot of documents with 10 or so figures 
(JPG or similar) and that is a big problem.  OO often inserts the figures 100's 
of times in the same spot.  When we do "Accept Changes" the system often 
crashes.  Doing it one by seems to work.  The documents are about 60 pages long.


I am at wits end and need to have someone look at these documents and tell me 
what's wrong?  Is there somewhere I can get paid support?

 



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