Bug 147210 - Headings should automatically match outline level
Summary: Headings should automatically match outline level
Status: RESOLVED INSUFFICIENTDATA
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
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7.1.3.2 release
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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Reported: 2022-02-05 07:30 UTC by Tai
Modified: 2022-09-05 03:39 UTC (History)
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Description Tai 2022-02-05 07:30:07 UTC
Description:
Having a table of contents is nice, and having a navigation window on the side is even better.  The navigator feature isn't useful, however, until a new user like me figures out how to adjust the "Outline Level" of headers.  

Please make Header Numbers automatically match the Outline Levels of a document.  I had to go digging through forum posts to find a solution, but I can't fathom why this wouldn't be automatic.  

You have to press Heading>Edit Style>Outline & Numbering>Outline Level, every time you want to make the Headers and Outline Levels match.  But why can't this be automatic to save time and make the navigator more viable for would-be users?

I love what you guys and gals do with LibreOffice.  Thank you so much for everything you do and please keep up your great work!!!

Steps to Reproduce:
1.press Heading>Edit Style>Outline & Numbering>Outline Level, every time you want to make the Headers and Outline Levels match.
2.This should be automatic for every writer document.

Actual Results:
The outline level and header numbers matched!  Beautiful.

Expected Results:
Should have been automatic.  I don't know why anyone would need to do this edit themselves, since headers should automatically have this feature.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
You devs at LibreOffice are open-source heroes.  XOXO
Comment 1 Mike Kaganski 2022-02-05 09:06:37 UTC
(In reply to Tai from comment #0)
> Please make Header Numbers automatically match the Outline Levels of a
> document.  I had to go digging through forum posts to find a solution, but I
> can't fathom why this wouldn't be automatic.  

Nobody would also be able to tell why that wouldn't be "automatic" for you - unless you describe where your documents come from, so why do they *not* have the standard association of Heading N styles to chapter numbering, as it's normal in new Writer documents by default, and which makes the match fixed (one would not be change the outline level in the style settings dialog when Chapter Numbering is in effect).

So please clarify your steps, describing how did you *arrive* to the state that you describe. In any case, being able to *manually change* document settings from the defaults to the state that you describe is fine and wanted - but that is not supposed to be the default, unless you do that in a template that you use.
Comment 2 QA Administrators 2022-08-05 03:32:37 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 3 QA Administrators 2022-09-05 03:39:11 UTC
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