microsoft.public.word.docmanagement is the real name of this "General
Questions" newsgroup. You can get to microsoft.public.word.numbering through
either of the following links:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...word.numbering
http://communities2.microsoft.com/co...s/default.aspx
FWIW, the other MVP I asked to consider your question said it made her head
hurt, too, but she may be able to look at it after work (she's on the other
side of the world, though). But if you post in the numbering NG, you'll
attract the attention of the MVPs (and others) who specialize in numbering.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site:
http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.
"Peyton Todd" wrote in message
...
Oh, I get it. You mean the my question in word.pagelayout, not an MVP in
word.pagelayout. I still don't know how to go to
microsoft.public.word.numbering. In fact, word.docmanagement doesn't
appear
in my dropdown box, either!
-Peyton
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
You have posted this separately to two NGs, neither of them the most
appropriate (which would be microsoft.public.word.numbering). I've sent
an
SOS to another MVP for an answer to your question in word.pagelayout, so
perhaps we can close this thread. This is currently the highest-traffic
Word
NG, and many MVPs avoid it for that reason.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so
all may benefit.
"Peyton Todd" wrote in message
...
- note: I posted this just a while ago, but it didn't appear -
apologies
if
this is a repeat-
Hello. I have a problem which is driving me nuts. I posted this
problem
about 10 days ago, and Suzanne Barnhill was extremely helpful to me
and
taught me a lot. (If you're reading this, Suzanne, thank you thank
you! Do
you MVPs really do all this for free?)
Here's my problem. I'm a linguist, and articles in my field all
example
sentences have numbers beside them in parentheses, e.g. (1). And
references
to them in the text look like that, too, e.g., 'as we can tell from
sentence
(1),...'. I need those references to update automatically (by pressing
F9)
when an extra example sentence is stuffed in somewhere. The way I'm
doing
it
is Insert|Field|Listnum with (none) chosen for Field properties. And I
insert
my references by Insert|Reference|Cross-reference|Numbered item (with
reference to as 'Paragraph (no context)'). This works great. I get my
parentheses just like I want 'em. But I only managed get to work by
blindly
banging at Word long ago until I finally lucked out. And I have
determined
that all the information to make it work in contained in a paragraph
marker
('pilcrow') which I have placed at the top of the document. Yes, it
definitelyis. If I remove it, all my numbers switch to i), ii), iii),
iv),
etc. immediately. If I stuff it back in, everything is (1), (2), (3),
etc.
just like I want it. And whenever I want to write a new paper, I just
copy
in
that pilcrow from a previous document.
But now here's where the trouble comes in. I want my headings to
appear in
the Document Map. In fact, it looks like they have to be actual
Microsoft
Word Built-in headings or else based on them, since my ultimate goal
is a
PDF
and that's what they let you choose from. Anyway, as soon as I put in
a
heading anywhere, or add a style like Suzanne taught me, and give it
an
outline level, or even just select a heading I've typed into the body
of
the
document, and go to Format|Paragraph on the menu and specify the
outline
level there... boom! all the utterance numbers after it jump to i),
ii),
iii), etc. I find I can take my magic pilcrow and stuff it after the
offending newly added heading, and it seems to fix things, but that's
a
big
nuisance to have to do after every heading. I BELIEVE I've been able
to
base
new headings on that and they work, but I find that my magic pilcrow
is
based
on heading 3, and I need multiple outline levels, not all the same. If
I
try
my to switch my pilcrow, say, from outline level 3 to outline level 2,
woops!
Now suddenly all my number go to i), ii), iii) again! Arghh!
--
Peyton Todd
510-843-1568