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Image of TOC

LibreOffice Writer has a great feature in “Tools | Chapter Numbering” that will automatically number headings and subheadings. It can do 1,2,3,4, A,B,C,D or one, two, three, four, and much more. This allows the author to use the Navigator pane to reorder headings and subheadings without having to renumber them. 

However, I wanted to use this for a novel where the chapters were “Chapter One” “Chapter Two” etc. There was no text for the [Heading 1] just a blank line. The actual text looked great, but the TOC was a disaster. It was missing the lines for the blank heading 1 entries. I can see where the authors of novels would really like this to work. A lot of time is spent when writing to get the chapters and scenes in the correct order. Renumbering by hand each time adds to the work and frustration.

Attached is an image of the TOC for a “simple” novel as well as the actual odt file.

Chapters 1 & 5 have titles while 2-4 have blank titles. In the Navigator, they look correct. But in the TOX Chapters 2-4 have no entries. This makes LibreOffice Writer’s “ChapterNumbering” almost useless when writing the most common style for novels today.