How do I link styles to outline levels?

Question

Greetings,
I work with a lot of nested numbered lists and in microsoft Word I can link a style to an outline level. I cant figure out how to do it in pages. I would love to dump Word if I could but without that feature, im afraid its a deal breaker ( and a serious oversight to boot.) Any ideas how I can accomplish this?
To be clear I want to create a style. When I set text to that style it should inherit the number in the list as well as the indent level in the list. In microsoft word, one defines a custom numbering and links the level to the style.
I have 30 days more of trial. I would like to go to pages but this would be a deal breaker if it cant be done.
-- Robert

Answer 1

Actually, that doesnt answer the question. I know how to create a list and I know how to set tiered numbers. What is missing is the ability to highlight text, set it to a specific style and automatically have it be included into a number sequence. This is used in business requirments documents among other places. So if I have a document with the following:
1. Some Topic
1.1. Some other sub topic
This is text to describe a topic.
In this example ,the "Some Topic" line is of style "Heading 1" and the "Some Other Topic" line is of heading two. Now if I create another line and set it to heading 2, it should automatically add the numbering of "1.2." to the line and put the text in italic.
Sheesh is there anyone on this forum that has used Word before? This is not exactly an oddball thing to do. This is so common in requirements documents or any sort of numbered document.
I suppose since I cant get an answer my original notion that it cant be done is true and I should just give up on pages til it can be more mature.