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Amit
MS Word 97, Windows XP
=================== Hi, I have created a table with 3 columns in a Word document. The first column is Serial Number. Is there a way to update the value of Serial Number in rows automatically when I add or delete a new row in/from the middle of the table, instead of manually updating them? Thanks! -Amit |
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Is this something you can use a SEQ field for? It won't update
*automatically* but will when you update fields. -- 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. "Amit" wrote in message ... MS Word 97, Windows XP =================== Hi, I have created a table with 3 columns in a Word document. The first column is Serial Number. Is there a way to update the value of Serial Number in rows automatically when I add or delete a new row in/from the middle of the table, instead of manually updating them? Thanks! -Amit |
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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
Is this something you can use a SEQ field for? It won't update *automatically* but will when you update fields. Hi Suzanne, I'm practically a newbie when it comes to MS Word (and more so with Styles and Formatting...though I'm learning a few things thanks to your responses :-). I looked up SEQ in MS Help, and it led me to LISTNUM, which I think is closer to what I'm looking for. But, I could not figure out the steps to set up a field/column in a table with LISTNUM or SEQ. Will appreciate it if you can outline the steps to accomplish that. Thanks! -Amit -- 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. "Amit" wrote in message ... MS Word 97, Windows XP =================== Hi, I have created a table with 3 columns in a Word document. The first column is Serial Number. Is there a way to update the value of Serial Number in rows automatically when I add or delete a new row in/from the middle of the table, instead of manually updating them? Thanks! -Amit |
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You'll have to add the fields manually, but if you save the correctly
formatted field as an AutoText entry and use AutoComplete to insert it, this could go pretty quickly. -- 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. "Amit" wrote in message ... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Is this something you can use a SEQ field for? It won't update *automatically* but will when you update fields. Hi Suzanne, I'm practically a newbie when it comes to MS Word (and more so with Styles and Formatting...though I'm learning a few things thanks to your responses :-). I looked up SEQ in MS Help, and it led me to LISTNUM, which I think is closer to what I'm looking for. But, I could not figure out the steps to set up a field/column in a table with LISTNUM or SEQ. Will appreciate it if you can outline the steps to accomplish that. Thanks! -Amit -- 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. "Amit" wrote in message ... MS Word 97, Windows XP =================== Hi, I have created a table with 3 columns in a Word document. The first column is Serial Number. Is there a way to update the value of Serial Number in rows automatically when I add or delete a new row in/from the middle of the table, instead of manually updating them? Thanks! -Amit |
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This may not be the exact effect you want, but at least in Word 2003
you can select a column of the table and then click the "numbered list" toolbar button and it will fill in a sequence of numbers in the selected column. On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 08:13:01 -0700, "Amit" wrote: MS Word 97, Windows XP =================== Hi, I have created a table with 3 columns in a Word document. The first column is Serial Number. Is there a way to update the value of Serial Number in rows automatically when I add or delete a new row in/from the middle of the table, instead of manually updating them? Thanks! -Amit |
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