How the H&*()*) do I turn auto numbering in OO Writer completely OFF ?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 10:06 +1030, Tim wrote:
> One of my peeves about auto-numbering is that it's two simplistic.

Or even *too* simplistic :-)

> I
> can't recall a word processor that will let me write up numbered
> sections on a page, and let one (or more) of those sections be more
> than
> one paragraph in length.  Take a legal document, for instance, such as
> a
> contract, you're not just numbering paragraphs (which is all /it/
> wants
> to let you do), you're numbering sections.  A section could have any
> number of paragraphs.  You're left with having to do it all manually,
> including changing all the margins.  Which gets quite painful when you
> don't have a copy and paste feature for the formatting alone (copy the
> formatting, don't copy/replace the text).

Amen to that. I think it was Brian Kernighan who said that in a WYSIWYG
system, what you see is *all* you get.

poc