Bug 92170 - Add option to edit bullets in style dialog
Summary: Add option to edit bullets in style dialog
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Draw (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
3.5.7.2 release
Hardware: Other All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Keywords:
: 170464 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: ImpressDraw-Styles
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Reported: 2015-06-19 00:45 UTC by Francisco
Modified: 2026-01-26 12:33 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Images styles dialog (130.82 KB, image/png)
2015-06-19 20:07 UTC, Francisco
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Description Francisco 2015-06-19 00:45:39 UTC
It is not possible to set the type of bullet for a paragraph style within the "Shape style dialog". This happens in Draw, and by extension, to Impress. However, style dialogues for exclusive presentation text boxes (Title, Subtitle, Outline #) have a "Bullet" tab.

Steps:
1) Create a new ODG document
2) Modify or create a new shape style.
2b) In the "Organizer" tab, the "Contains" section already shows a type of bullet
3) Try to edit the bullet style used in this dialog

Result:
It is not possible, because the corresponding tab doesn't appear

Expected:
It should be possible to edit the bullet style of a shape.
Comment 1 Buovjaga 2015-06-19 19:56:38 UTC
Is the dialog like that in 4.4, too?
I can't see any style with those bullets in Contains.

Win 7 Pro 64-bit, Version: 4.4.3.2
Build ID: 88805f81e9fe61362df02b9941de8e38a9b5fd16
Locale: fi_FI

Version: 5.1.0.0.alpha1+
Build ID: 437210d58f32177ef1829d704f7f4d2f1bbfbfdd
TinderBox: Win-x86@39, Branch:master, Time: 2015-06-18_07:21:56
Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI)
Comment 2 Francisco 2015-06-19 20:07:39 UTC
Created attachment 116663 [details]
Images styles dialog

Hi, I don't understand what you mean but I'm uploading a screenshot of the problem done with LibO 4.4. However, I think this is inherited from OOo.

There, you can see the dialog for the Default style for a shape in Draw. It has already assigned a default bullet (black thick dot). However, it is not possible to edit the bullet assigned to the Default style: the tab with the bullet format is missing.
Comment 3 Buovjaga 2015-06-19 20:15:29 UTC
Ok, sorry I was looking at all the other styles except default.

Win 7 Pro 64-bit Version: 5.1.0.0.alpha1+
Build ID: 437210d58f32177ef1829d704f7f4d2f1bbfbfdd
TinderBox: Win-x86@39, Branch:master, Time: 2015-06-18_07:21:56
Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI)
Comment 4 Heiko Tietze 2019-02-25 12:08:12 UTC
No further input from UX needed. "Bullets and Numbering" is available to text fields from the main menu and taken into new styles per "New from selection" but shown as big dot and not editable.
Comment 5 Regina Henschel 2019-02-25 13:18:13 UTC
The current implementation is weak. The graphic properties may contain a list style. LibreOffice writes such list style into the graphic properties, but it does not use it. Instead it handles the list style as direct (automatic) style of the single shape. And even "clear direct formatting" does not remove it. And manually removing the direct style and setting the list style name of the graphic properties instead, does not work. LibreOffice does not use it, but falls back to its default list style then.
Comment 6 Regina Henschel 2026-01-25 14:24:00 UTC
*** Bug 170464 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 muso 2026-01-25 14:49:42 UTC
This is a big issue for me. I am coming from Office 365 to LO. The point is that I just try the simple things and when my boss tells me 5 minutes before a meeting you should add a list with 3 items, but I need 2 hours just to find out that this is impossible, causes stress. All itemized lists have to have a red arrow as item character according to our corporate style policy.

All Software I used so far have a setting for the item character. I wonder why Impress does not have this.

It is also super confusing that the text boxes behave differently from itemized lists inside the containers one gets when selecting a slide style with boxes. Usually I only use empty slides but then i cannot add a box in which the items behave as i want it. At the moment I copy the box from other presentations into my slides which is a pain.

In bug 170464 Regina told me that text boxes are graphics objects. Maybe this is the main issue, meaning text boxes should be text objects with the possibility to add graphics.
Comment 8 Heiko Tietze 2026-01-26 08:02:34 UTC
(In reply to muso from comment #7)
> all itemized lists have to have a red arrow as item character
> according to our corporate style policy.

Format > Bullets and Numbering
Character: Search (arrow) and pick one
Color: red
=> pretty straight-forward

The issue here is why this "red arrow" cannot be used in a style. Neither by editing nor when creating a new style from the current selection.
Comment 9 muso 2026-01-26 12:33:22 UTC
> The issue here is why this "red arrow" cannot be used in a style.

Maybe you mean the same than what my issue is:
I make presentations for different companies. Therefore I usually setup a default style, meaning for all new text boxes I add to a presentation, I will get the same bullet item style. To achieve this in MS 365, I set this up in a master slide, so I can use a certain master slide for the particular company.
In Impress I cannot set a default text box bullet style for the master slide. (Or at least I could not yet find a way to do this.)