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Trying to make numbering work...
- 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 |
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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 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 |
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Sorry, but I'm a little confused. I assume this means you're waiting for the
other MVP's answer. But if we're closing this thread, where do I go to look for the answer? I don't even know how to get to microsoft.public.word.numbering - it's not among the choices in the dropdown box.... 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 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 |
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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 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 |
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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 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 |
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It made my head hurt too (but I'm *not* the numbering guru Suzanne sent the
SOS to). So I made a stab at rewriting the question into something less painful, on the .pagelayout thread. -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://www.word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/ What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ On 12/16/04 9:19 AM, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: 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. |
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