Bug 160042 - Bullets and Numbering dialog: pre-select current level's matching Outline/Ordered/Unordered entry
Summary: Bullets and Numbering dialog: pre-select current level's matching Outline/Ord...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Justin L
URL:
Whiteboard: target:26.2.0
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks: Numbering-Formats
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Reported: 2024-03-05 07:11 UTC by lvm
Modified: 2025-09-16 00:18 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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faint numbering selection sample (16.31 KB, image/png)
2024-03-05 07:11 UTC, lvm
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Description lvm 2024-03-05 07:11:44 UTC
Created attachment 192956 [details]
faint numbering selection sample

* Open styles pane (F11)
* Go to 'body text-list-numbering 1' style and edit it (rightclick, edit style)
* Go to Outline&list tab
* Set List style to 'Numbering 123'
* Click 'Edit Style' button (wait a minute, aren't we editing a style already? Terminology is confusing - bug1)
* Set Ordered to '1.' and Outline to '1.1.1.1.'
* Click Ok - and style list selection jumps from 'Numbering 1' to 'Body Style' - why? (bug2)
* Find 'numbering 1' style agaon, edit, go to Outline&list - Numbering 123 style is saved.
* Click 'Edit Style' button - Ordered and Outline settings are NOT saved, first items in both lists are selected (bug3) Also the initial unfocused selection in this dialogue is way too faint. Even though my eyesight is not at all bad, I have to do a double take, image attached (bug4)


Version: 24.2.1.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: db4def46b0453cc22e2d0305797cf981b68ef5ac
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 17763; UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: en-GB (en_GB); UI: en-GB
Calc: threaded
Comment 1 DuyN 2024-03-05 07:34:33 UTC
Thank you for reporting the bug. I can confirm that the bug is present in:

Version: 24.2.1.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: db4def46b0453cc22e2d0305797cf981b68ef5ac
CPU threads: 16; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 22631; UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 2 Justin L 2025-08-22 00:13:37 UTC
(In reply to lvm from comment #0)
> * Go to 'body text-list-numbering 1' style and edit it
You are editing a paragraph style...
> * Click 'Edit Style' button (aren't we editing a style already?
NOTABUG: now you are editing a numbering list style.

> * Click Ok - and style list selection jumps from 'Numbering 1' to 'Body
> Style' - why?
Because your current paragraph style is "Body Style". See bug 136096 resolved as NOTABUG.

> * Click 'Edit Style' button - Ordered and Outline settings are NOT saved,
NOTABUG: these are just pre-defined settings that affect the "Customize" tab. You can't "select and save" individual Ordered/Outline/Unordered choices.

ENHANCEMENT: It should be possible to pre-select the current level's match in Outline/Ordered/Unordered tab. (It works in the toolbar).
Comment 3 Commit Notification 2025-09-16 00:14:18 UTC
Justin Luth committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/601cf07cfc614c11769ccd6a619013b0f652741a

tdf#160042 bullets and numbering dlg: preselect if match found

It will be available in 26.2.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Comment 4 Justin L 2025-09-16 00:18:03 UTC
(In reply to Justin L from comment #2)
> ENHANCEMENT: It should be possible to pre-select the current level's match
> in Outline/Ordered/Unordered tab.
This is what comment 3 has done.  Marking as FIXED