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Position

Set indent, spacing, and alignment options for numbering symbols, such as numbers or bullets, to ordered and unordered lists.

To access this command...

Choose Format - Bullets and Numbering - Position tab.

Choose View - Styles (F11) - choose List Styles - context menu of an entry - choose New/Modify - Position tab.

Choose Styles - Manage Styles - choose List Styles - context menu of an entry - choose New/Modify - Position tab.

Choose Tools - Chapter Numbering - Position tab.

Level

Select the level(s) that you want to modify. To apply the options to all the levels, select “1-10”.

Position and Spacing

This page shows the position controls used in all versions of Office Writer. Some documents (produced by other applications) use another method for positioning and spacing. Opening such documents will show the position controls documented in Position for List styles (legacy).

Aligned at

Enter the distance from the left page margin at which the numbering symbol will be aligned.

Numbering alignment

Set the alignment of the numbering symbols. Select "Left" to align the numbering symbol to start directly at the "Aligned at" position. Select "Right" to align the symbol to end directly before the "Aligned at" position. Select "Centred" to centre the symbol around the "Aligned at" position.

The Numbering alignment option does not set the alignment of the paragraph.

Numbering followed by

Select the element that will follow the numbering: a tab stop, a space, a line break, or nothing.

Tab stop at

If you select a tab stop to follow the numbering, you can enter a non-negative value as the tab stop position.

Indent at

Enter the distance from the left page margin to the beginning of all lines in the numbered paragraph that follow the first line.

Default

Resets the indent and the spacing values to the default values.

Load/Save

Saves or loads a chapter numbering format. A saved chapter numbering format is available to load into other text documents.

The Load/Save button is only available for chapter numbering. Use List styles to save formatting for ordered or unordered lists.

Preview

Displays a preview of the current selection.

Reset

Resets changes made to the current tab to those applicable when this dialogue box was opened.

Apply

Applies modifications on all tabs without closing dialogue box. Cannot be reverted with Reset.

This control appears only when modifying a List style.