Bug 57337

Summary: FORMATTING: Configurable Default Bullet Styles
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: Samuel Atkins <freedesktop>
Component: WriterAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: high CC: stgohi-lobugs, vmiklos
Version: 3.6.3.2 release   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
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Description Samuel Atkins 2012-11-20 19:09:30 UTC 
An elderly friend of mine regularly wants to print out tick lists. It is possible to style lists in this way in Writer, but you have to select a box character from the 'Options' tab. This is a bit beyond him, and he told me he previously gave up on using OpenOffice because it didn't allow him to do this, whereas MS Word97, which he was otherwise using, has checkbox bullets easily selectable.

I think perhaps a good solution might be to allow the user to customise the 8 bullet styles that appear on the 'Bullets' tab. Perhaps right-clicking on one would allow you to modify it. Then, these styles would be saved so that when creating a new document, the user's customised bullet styles would be displayed.

While searching, I found a similar issue, Bug 36574. I think this also would be solved by this.

I would be happy to help out with developing a solution if someone pointed me in the right direction.
Comment 1 A (Andy) 2012-12-24 19:33:52 UTC 
I would agree that LO's BULLETS AND NUMBERING function should be really improved like in this bug report commented.  For instance it should also be easily be possible to amend the bullets like to change the character or for instance the colour of a bullet.
Comment 2 A (Andy) 2013-05-04 10:31:19 UTC 
@Miklós: Could this issue maybe be something for you?

In MSO 2007 you have the option for instance to change the color of a bullet and this is an option which I really miss in my daily work in LO.  Therefore, it would be great if we could implement this in LO.

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