Should the Bullet 'Start Numbering' really set on Style Import?

[rjvela82]

I noticed on Style Import, the 'Start numbering at' value is being imported.

This resulted in me having to go through every frame and double check my bullet numbers.

[rjvela82]

I have gone ahead and set it No Change on the template. 

Can you tell me exactly what the 'Restart numbering now' flag does?

 

[Old Bruce]

4 minutes ago, rjvela82 said:

I noticed on Style Import, the 'Start numbering at' value is being imported.

This resulted in me having to go through every frame and double check my bullet numbers.

I am going to guess you mean on "Text Style Import" the numbering for Numbered lists has the starting value imported. I would expect that to be imported as it is part of the definition of the Paragraph Style.

[rjvela82]

41 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

I am going to guess you mean on "Text Style Import" the numbering for Numbered lists has the starting value imported. I would expect that to be imported as it is part of the definition of the Paragraph Style.

Pls have a look at these videos and let me know what I'm doing wrong in trying to solve this issue.

 

[Old Bruce]

14 minutes ago, rjvela82 said:

Pls have a look at these videos and let me know what I'm doing wrong in trying to solve this issue.

 

In the first video around the 20 second mark you deleted the four but never entered anything. Try entering 1.

[rjvela82]

3 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

In the first video around the 20 second mark you deleted the four but never entered anything. Try entering 1.

It causes the same issue. All my frames will start with 1 instead of 4.  

I honestly believe there's a bug here. The Styles properties allows me to clear out the Start numbering at field so that it says [No change], however when I reopen the properties, the current value of the Paragraph studio is always set, and therefore that is what's importing to new documents.

[Old Bruce]

6 minutes ago, rjvela82 said:

The Styles properties allows me to clear out the Start numbering at field so that it says [No change]

[No Change] would most likely be be the numbering from whatever is set in the Paragraph Style on which this imported one is based on.

8 minutes ago, rjvela82 said:

It causes the same issue. All my frames will start with 1 instead of 4.  

I am utterly confused as what you are wanting here. Are you wanting to have all the numbered lists all start at four? 

Is this assumption correct? You want to import a Numbered list Paragraph Style from a different document and use it. 

Have you actually applied that Imported Numbered List Paragraph Style to all the various lists after you import it?

[rjvela82]

@Old Bruce

I'm not sure what you mean. In my video, you see that I attempt to update a template file that has my latest styles with the goal to update another document I made previously with older styles. My attempts to update the template file's styles so that it does not cause all my frames in an older file to start with the same number is what I'm asking for help with.

[Old Bruce]

Again I will ask if you are applying the imported styles to the text in your document. In your second video you have an override in the bullet style.

[rjvela82]

Sorry I didn't understand you the first time but that was the issue.

I basically updated the style to clear the override and then re-edited it with the [No Change] in the properties and importing it didn't break the ordering I had in the frames of the older file.

thanks for the help, good one! @Old Bruce

😁

[Old Bruce]

I am glad to hear that you solved it. Thanks for reporting back.