I have been using MS Word 5 forever. I am a musician and use it to compile
set lists where I frequently add and delete songs from the play list. All
iahve to do is to hit the "re-number" command, and the list is re-numbered.
Can you do this in Office/Word?

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I have been using MS Word 5 forever. I am a musician and use it to compile
set lists where I frequently add and delete songs from the play list. All
iahve to do is to hit the "re-number" command, and the list is re-numbered.
Can you do this in Office/Word?

You mean you're currently using DOS Word and are thinking of moving to Word for
Windows? If you use the "auto numbering" in WinWord, then you don't have to do
anything - it renumbers for you.

If you use fields (such as an SEQ), then Ctrl+A, F9 will force the fields to
update, including the numbering.

Cindy Meister
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Actually, I'm on a Mac with Microsoft Office. I used word 5 for mac prior to
that, and I had no problems updating the set list. Simply hit re-number and
that's exactly what it did. I just can't seem to get Office word to do that.
It places a new row of numbers outside the old numbers, instead of just
renumbering!!

Is your recommendation going to allow that?

It sounds as if you have numbered your paragraphs manually instead of using
auto numbering. You need to remove the plain-text numbers.

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"BigDogMurphy" wrote in message
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Actually, I'm on a Mac with Microsoft Office. I used word 5 for mac prior
to
that, and I had no problems updating the set list. Simply hit re-number
and
that's exactly what it did. I just can't seem to get Office word to do
that.
It places a new row of numbers outside the old numbers, instead of just
renumbering!!

Is your recommendation going to allow that?

I removed the manual numbers, and now it renumbers, but it renumbers the
whole set list, instead of just the affected page. Is there a way to prevent
that. Word 5 had it just right, but the Mac OSX wants to use the "advanced"
technology!!

Can you help with renumbering just one page of the set list, there are 6
pages total. And, Office renumbers everyone of them instead of just set 1,
or set 2, etc.

dog

I guess I'm not clear on what you want to do, but if you want different runs
of numbering, you can use Restart Numbering as needed or create an
outline-numbered list so that Level 2 restarts automatically after Level 1.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"BigDogMurphy" wrote in message
...
I removed the manual numbers, and now it renumbers, but it renumbers the
whole set list, instead of just the affected page. Is there a way to
prevent
that. Word 5 had it just right, but the Mac OSX wants to use the
"advanced"
technology!!

Can you help with renumbering just one page of the set list, there are 6
pages total. And, Office renumbers everyone of them instead of just set
1,
or set 2, etc.

dog