Disabling autonumbering in OpenOffice.org Writer

Autonumbering can be useful, but it can also be annoying. Personally I know what I want to do and I don't need some smart-arse word processor telling me otherwise.

OpenOffice is really cool, but this particular feature was driving my girlfriend to derision and she was threatening to dump her Ubuntu Linux laptop in favour of a return to Windows: the situation was serious!

It's not obvious how to to disable this feature; in fact, it's down-right annoyingly difficult to find out where it is. Anyway I did by searching around the net and here's how you do it:

1. Tools -> Auto Correct
2. Options tab
3. Uncheck the option Apply numbering - symbol: *
4. Click OK

That's it, obviously re-check that option to turn it back on.