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Facharbeit: Headings

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A heading is only a heading once the program knows it as one. With the styles Heading 1 and Heading 2 (Überschrift 1, Überschrift 2) and automatic chapter numbering, the outline and later the table of contents come about by themselves.
📄 Open worksheet (PDF, German) 📝 Übungsdatei (.odt) 📝 Übungsdatei (.docx)

The video

In the video you see LibreOffice in the browser. On the left the Navigator opens: there you see which headings the program knows.

Subtitles are available in ten languages. Choose them at the bottom right of the video.

Contents of the video

  1. 0:00 What it is about
  2. 0:18 Why styles
  3. 0:48 Assigning headings
  4. 1:23 Automatic numbers
  5. 2:24 Deleting typed numbers
  6. 2:42 Headings without a number
  7. 3:07 Summary

The most important points

If you just make a line bold and big, it is still an ordinary paragraph for the program. Only the style Heading 1 (for chapters, Ctrl+1) or Heading 2 (for subchapters, Ctrl+2) turns it into a heading.

Chapter numbering: under Position the number is followed by a space instead of a wide tab.
Chapter numbering: under Position the number is followed by a space instead of a wide tab.

Outline of a Facharbeit

1 – 1.1 – 1.1.1: three levels at most. If you have a subchapter 1.1, you also need 1.2. The program assigns the numbers; never type them by hand – otherwise they are wrong after the next new chapter.

The Navigator shows the whole outline, with chapters and indented subchapters.
The Navigator shows the whole outline, with chapters and indented subchapters.
Bibliography and declaration without a number: Backspace at the start of the heading. They remain headings and appear in the Navigator.
Bibliography and declaration without a number: Backspace at the start of the heading. They remain headings and appear in the Navigator.

The worksheet

Here you can see the worksheet for the video (in German). If there is a practice file, you download it above and work in your own word processor. The hints are printed upside down – turn the sheet only when you cannot get on by yourself. You can also open it as a PDF.

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Try it yourself

Task

a) You insert a new chapter between chapters 2 and 3. What do you have to change in the numbers? b) Why does a line that you only made bold and 16 pt big not appear in the table of contents?

Show solution

a) Nothing – with automatic chapter numbering the following chapters keep counting by themselves. b) The table of contents collects only paragraphs with a heading style or outline level; bold and big is only appearance.

Keep learning with a language model

You are my teacher and help me with my Facharbeit. I am learning to set headings with styles (Heading 1, Heading 2) and automatic chapter numbering. Give me a short outline of a Facharbeit with mistakes (for example a single subchapter 2.1 without 2.2, four levels, numbers with a full stop at the end) and let me find the mistakes. Wait for my answer and then explain briefly.

How this was made: The idea and the choice of topics are mine. A language model (LLM) drafted the script, the sample paper, the tasks and this page following my instructions. The screen recordings were made automatically by a script in LibreOffice (in the browser, with Collabora Online), which checked after every step that the setting was really saved. The voice was generated with Qwen3-TTS, modelled on my own voice.

The sample paper about the thread pendulum is invented, and so are the person “Alex Beispiel” and the two sources in the bibliography.

The videos, worksheets, practice files, texts and prompts in this series are licensed under CC BY 4.0: you may use, change and share them if you name the source.