Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 6639
Navigator doesn't display sublevels of headings after saving
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:41:36 UTC
I created a new document, created a new outline numbering style, formatted the built in Heading, Heading1, Heading2...Heading10 styles. When using the document, the Navigator worked fine. Then after saving the document, shutting down OOo, reopening everything the next day, the Navigator will only show the Heading1 level (not the sublevels) even though the pop-up menu Heading Levels Shown is set to 10.
Created attachment 2385 [details] Here is the file with my styles in it
I have verified that this problem remains in 643. Here is perhaps a better explanation of the problem also: The Navigator's functions for working with headings are tied to the paragraph styles assigned to levels 1 thru 10 via menu Tools->Outline Numbering. The default is that paragraph styles Heading 1 thru Heading 10 are assigned to these levels. Simply put, the problem is that when a document is saved, not all of the outline Level/paragraph assignments are saved. Only the assignments for those levels that are used in the document are saved. These steps show the problem: 1. Open a new text document. 2. Choose Tools->Outline Numbering to verify that Heading 1 thru 10 are assigned to levels 1 thru 10. Click cancel to get out of the dialog. 3. Type four paragraphs as follows and use the Stylist to assign styles: _Text_ _Paragraph Style_ First paragraph Heading 1 Second paragraph Heading 2 Third paragraph Heading 3 Fourth paragraph Heading 4 4. Choose Tools->Outline Numbering to verify that Heading 1 thru Heading 10 are still assigned to levels 1 thru 10. 5. Save the document. Close the document. Reopen the document. 6. Open the Navigator and select the Headings section. You should see your four paragraphs listed there. 7. Select the fourth paragraph in the Navigator and click the Demote Level button. Voila! Your paragraph has disappeared from the Navigator. If you check in the Stylist, you will see that the paragraph style that is now assigned to your fourth paragraph is Heading 5 (which is the correct result of demoting it one level). The reason that it has disappeared from the Navigator is seen in step 8. 8. Choose Tools->Outline Numbering. There you will see that only Headings 1 thru *4* are now assigned. (These are the ones that were "used" in your document when it was saved.) Levels 5 thru 10 have no paragraph style assigned to them.-----That is why the Navigator doesn't "see" your fourth paragraph after it was demoted to Heading 5. If you reassign paragraph style Heading 5 to Level 5, you will again "see" your fourth paragraph in the Navigator. This is getting long, but I also noted a related problem. Please let me know if I should open a separate issue for it. In the Tools->Outline Numbering dialog, there is a Format button where you can save the numbering schemes that you create so they are available for use in other documents. The problem is that these are only saved until you quit OOo. Thanks for your help in getting these matters resolved. Outlining is an important part of many users' work.
Reassigned to Éric.
to OOo 2.0
I cannot reproduce this in OOO 1.1 beta2. Reopen if you can still reproduce it.
closed
I checked this out with OOo1.1beta2 and it is still the identical problem. I assigned paragraphs to the styles Heading 1, Heading 2, etc., closed the document, and reopened it. Checking Tools->Outline Numbering showed that the style assignments for any levels that were not used in the document were lost. (That is, if the highest level used in the document was level 3 [assigned to style Heading 3], then levels 4 through 10 no longer had paragraph styles assigned to them.) Eric, are you testing on Win98 or with some other OS?
I'm really sorry I didn't understand your first description vorrectly! Yes I can reproduce it (on every platform) but it is a duplicate of the issue 12228. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 12228 ***
closed.