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Public bug reported:

After years of fighting OO Writer's bullets and numbering, I have
finally discovered at least part of the problem.  It appears to consist
of two parts.

1.  There is no "No, I don't want bullets and numbering" for a selected
paragraph.  Both the formatting drop-down/paragraph and the bullent-and-
numbering drop-down should both have this option, explicitly.

More specifically,

2.  Bullets and numbering is ultra aggressive.  Under some conditions,
even when bullets and numbering is turned off for a paragraph, O-O tries
to implement numbering anyway.  Worse, when this happens, not only the
current paragraph is infected, but one or more subsequent paragraphs
will also be affected, and the problem cannot be fixed.

Bullets and numbering energizes itself, even if the paragraph does not
have bullets and numbering enabled, when one or more of the following
occur:

......  A paragraph begins with a capital letter immediately followed by a period
......  A paragraph begins with certain capital letters (C, but apparently others as well)
......  The first character of the paragraph is a numeral followed by a period

This issue with respect to the second item above can be overcome by
enclosing the offending letter and some following text in double quotes
(U S style, ").  I don't know whether this works for numerals, however,
or if only the first letter is so enclosed.

Under these circumstances, it is impossible to disable bullets and
numbering.

When this aggressive behaviour occurs, it also causes indentation
specifications to be ignored and attempts to correct formatting causes
indentation specifications to be altered or eliminated.

By bullets and numbering enabling, I mean that "include this paragraph"
and/or "start numbering" is checked.

I am using Open Office 4.2 in the current release of Ubuntu 14.04,
presumably up to date, on an Pavilion laptop with AMD A8 processor.

** Affects: openoffice.org (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Bullets and numbering ignores paragraph formatting

Status in openoffice.org package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  After years of fighting OO Writer's bullets and numbering, I have
  finally discovered at least part of the problem.  It appears to
  consist of two parts.

  1.  There is no "No, I don't want bullets and numbering" for a
  selected paragraph.  Both the formatting drop-down/paragraph and the
  bullent-and-numbering drop-down should both have this option,
  explicitly.

  More specifically,

  2.  Bullets and numbering is ultra aggressive.  Under some conditions,
  even when bullets and numbering is turned off for a paragraph, O-O
  tries to implement numbering anyway.  Worse, when this happens, not
  only the current paragraph is infected, but one or more subsequent
  paragraphs will also be affected, and the problem cannot be fixed.

  Bullets and numbering energizes itself, even if the paragraph does not
  have bullets and numbering enabled, when one or more of the following
  occur:

  ......  A paragraph begins with a capital letter immediately followed by a period
  ......  A paragraph begins with certain capital letters (C, but apparently others as well)
  ......  The first character of the paragraph is a numeral followed by a period

  This issue with respect to the second item above can be overcome by
  enclosing the offending letter and some following text in double
  quotes (U S style, ").  I don't know whether this works for numerals,
  however, or if only the first letter is so enclosed.

  Under these circumstances, it is impossible to disable bullets and
  numbering.

  When this aggressive behaviour occurs, it also causes indentation
  specifications to be ignored and attempts to correct formatting causes
  indentation specifications to be altered or eliminated.

  By bullets and numbering enabling, I mean that "include this
  paragraph" and/or "start numbering" is checked.

  I am using Open Office 4.2 in the current release of Ubuntu 14.04,
  presumably up to date, on an Pavilion laptop with AMD A8 processor.

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