Is there a quick way to get some otherwise-blank sheets of paper with the
numbers 1 through 500 printed vertically in a column down the left-hand
side, the numbers being underneath one another? (Using however many sheets
it takes to accommodate all the numbers.)

If you're willing to insert 500 empty paragraphs (which you'd pretty much
have to do regardless of how you attack this), you could use line numbering.
On the Layout tab of Page Setup, click on Line Numbers..., choose to number
every line and make the numbering continuous. Then, in your document, press
Enter several times till you have a reasonable chunk of paragraphs (this
will be easier to deal with if you have nonprinting characters displayed so
you can see the paragraph marks). Select the half dozen or so paragraphs,
Copy, and Paste. Then select all the paragraphs (the original ones plus the
ones you just pasted) and Copy/Paste again. Once you've got a page-sized
chunk, just F4 to repeat the paste as needed.

Another approach is to use AutoFill in Excel to create 500 numbered cells
and create a catalog/directory-type mail merge in Word, using the Excel file
as the data source; although this is more automated, I suspect it would
actually take longer to do.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"Cycle" wrote in message
...

Is there a quick way to get some otherwise-blank sheets of paper with the
numbers 1 through 500 printed vertically in a column down the left-hand
side, the numbers being underneath one another? (Using however many sheets
it takes to accommodate all the numbers.)

There's a site somewhere that plays games on finding the fewest possible
keystrokes/mousestrokes to create a given number of empty paragraphs --

1. Ctrl-A, ctrl-C, ctrl-V; and repeat.

2. Use Find and Replace to find ^p and replace ^p^p -- click Replace All
repeatedly

3. ... ?

well, if you have nothing else to do on a wet Tuesday ....





"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
If you're willing to insert 500 empty paragraphs (which you'd pretty much
have to do regardless of how you attack this), you could use line
numbering.
On the Layout tab of Page Setup, click on Line Numbers..., choose to
number
every line and make the numbering continuous. Then, in your document,
press
Enter several times till you have a reasonable chunk of paragraphs (this
will be easier to deal with if you have nonprinting characters displayed
so
you can see the paragraph marks). Select the half dozen or so paragraphs,
Copy, and Paste. Then select all the paragraphs (the original ones plus
the
ones you just pasted) and Copy/Paste again. Once you've got a page-sized
chunk, just F4 to repeat the paste as needed.

Another approach is to use AutoFill in Excel to create 500 numbered cells
and create a catalog/directory-type mail merge in Word, using the Excel
file
as the data source; although this is more automated, I suspect it would
actually take longer to do.

--
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.

"Cycle" wrote in message
...

Is there a quick way to get some otherwise-blank sheets of paper with the
numbers 1 through 500 printed vertically in a column down the left-hand
side, the numbers being underneath one another? (Using however many
sheets
it takes to accommodate all the numbers.)

Yeah, it's the creation of all those empty paragraphs that would give me the
willies (the waste of it all!).

--
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.

"Jezebel" wrote in message
...
There's a site somewhere that plays games on finding the fewest possible
keystrokes/mousestrokes to create a given number of empty paragraphs --

1. Ctrl-A, ctrl-C, ctrl-V; and repeat.

2. Use Find and Replace to find ^p and replace ^p^p -- click Replace All
repeatedly

3. ... ?

well, if you have nothing else to do on a wet Tuesday ....





"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
If you're willing to insert 500 empty paragraphs (which you'd pretty
much
have to do regardless of how you attack this), you could use line
numbering.
On the Layout tab of Page Setup, click on Line Numbers..., choose to
number
every line and make the numbering continuous. Then, in your document,
press
Enter several times till you have a reasonable chunk of paragraphs (this
will be easier to deal with if you have nonprinting characters displayed
so
you can see the paragraph marks). Select the half dozen or so
paragraphs,
Copy, and Paste. Then select all the paragraphs (the original ones plus
the
ones you just pasted) and Copy/Paste again. Once you've got a page-sized
chunk, just F4 to repeat the paste as needed.

Another approach is to use AutoFill in Excel to create 500 numbered
cells
and create a catalog/directory-type mail merge in Word, using the Excel
file
as the data source; although this is more automated, I suspect it would
actually take longer to do.

--
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.

"Cycle" wrote in message
...

Is there a quick way to get some otherwise-blank sheets of paper with
the
numbers 1 through 500 printed vertically in a column down the left-hand
side, the numbers being underneath one another? (Using however many
sheets
it takes to accommodate all the numbers.)

Thank you for your responses, they are appreciated.

Cycle.