I learned this trick about OpenOffice.org the other day and I wanted to write it down so I wouldn’t forget. It came up when I wanted to number the sections of a document I was working on, but I ran into trouble because a single section would be more than one paragraph. Which meant I would hit enter at the end of each paragraph and the it would automatically assume I wanted the next section number to show up. Which meant every time I would start a new paragraph that wasn’t a new section I would have to manually turn off numbering and then turn it back on and change the number when I needed it. This was rather annoying.

What I learned was that if you were using bullets or numbering and wanted to move to a new line without another bullet or number showing up; all you have to do is hold shift when you hit enter.

Needless to say this made my life easier. I am not sure if this works in Microsoft Office as well, because I don’t have the means to test it easily.