Luke's LibreOffice Hacks

I know, our motto on this blog is "forums suck," but that is not an absolute. Occasionally the answers on a forum are spot-on, but even then they tend to be bloated.  We found a solution to " Create and Modify Numbered Paragraph Styles " on the LibreOffice Forum. While the solution works, it looks fairly bloated (perhaps, of necessity). Anyway, you can find it here.   We will test the solution and see if we can improve the answer by making it shorter and easier to follow. If or when we accomplish that task, we will modify this post to include our findings.

 It seems like a lot of people struggle with this task that should be fairly simple. Let's solve it. Problem : In LibreOffice Writer, the numbers in your numbered list are not bold, and you cannot figure out how to make them bold. You created a numbered list, but the list numbers are not bold. You tried all sorts of ways to make the number bold, with no luck. That's because there is a simple, but somewhat obscure way to make the numbers bold in LO Writer. Once you learn it, you won't forget. Numbered list, but list number itself is not bold Solution :  After you have created your numbered list, right-click in the first numbered paragraph. Select "Bullets and Numbering," then "Bullets and Numbering" again in the drop-down. In the "Bullets and Numbering" dialog box that pops up, select the "Customize" tab. Click on the "Character Style" drop-down box and select "Strong Emphasis," then click okay. Numbered list, list ...