Many procedures refer to volume 1, 2 ,3 etc but they are always produced in
roman numerals, so how can I insert these characters in a normal text
document to provide correct referencing?

Hi Phil,

If the numbers you speak of are in a field, just add the \* Roman switch.
e.g. { QUOTE "1081" \* Roman } results in MLXXXI.

Good luck,
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"Phil Gearing" wrote:

Many procedures refer to volume 1, 2 ,3 etc but they are always produced in
roman numerals, so how can I insert these characters in a normal text
document to provide correct referencing?

Phil,

If you are numbering steps I would create an autotext entry using a SEQ
Field with Roman format switch

something like { SEQ myromanseq \* Roman }

Thanks guys for your prompt response, but I am clearly too stupid or basic to
follow your instructions. I am probably only looking at 1 - 9 in romans.

many thanks

Phil

"Phil Gearing" wrote:

Many procedures refer to volume 1, 2 ,3 etc but they are always produced in
roman numerals, so how can I insert these characters in a normal text
document to provide correct referencing?

If you are typing them, how about typing them?
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX

Or are you trying to use some kind of cross reference field?
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Thanks guys for your prompt response, but I am clearly too stupid or basic
to
follow your instructions. I am probably only looking at 1 - 9 in romans.

many thanks

Phil

"Phil Gearing" wrote:

Many procedures refer to volume 1, 2 ,3 etc but they are always produced
in
roman numerals, so how can I insert these characters in a normal text
document to provide correct referencing?

Phil,

Are you wanting to number items as you type these procedures?

The SEQ field can be used for this. To build a SEQ field, create a
pair of field delimiters by pressing CTRL+F9. Inside the braces type
SEQ and "a unique sequence name"

Example: { SEQ mynumber }

Now right click the field click update field and toggle field codes. A
"1" appears.
If you enter that field again, press CTRL+a to select all fields then
press F9. The second SEQ field produces "2." If you add the format
switch \*Roman to the fields then they produce I and II

If you save the field construction {SEQ mynumber \* Roman } as and
AutoText entry by:

1. Selecting it
2. Pressing ALT+F3
3. Giving it a name

Then you can use the AutoText entry to number a list as you type.

Here are a couple of macros that you coul use to convert existing
arabic numbers to Roman numbers. One simply converts from arabic to
roman the second (called macro) creates a sequenced in roman numbers.

Sub NumberFormatter()
With Selection.Find
.Text = "[0-9]{1,}"
.MatchWildcards = True
While .Execute
'ConvertNumberToRoman Selection.Text
ConvertNumberToRomanSeq Selection.Text
Wend
End With
End Sub
Sub ConvertNumberToRoman(pNum As Long)
With Selection
.Delete
.Fields.Add _
Range:=Selection.Range, _
Type:=wdFieldExpression, _
Text:=Str(pNum) & "\* Roman"
.MoveStart Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=-1
.Fields(1).Unlink
End With
End Sub
Sub ConvertNumberToRomanSeq(pNum As Long)
With Selection
.Delete
.Fields.Add _
Range:=Selection.Range, _
Type:=wdFieldSequence, _
Text:=Chr(34) & "myseq" & Chr(34) & " \* Roman"
.Collapse wdCollapseEnd
End With
End Sub