Hi Diana,

Just how are you doing it. For me, with line numbers applied by clicking on
the Line Numbers button on the Layout tab of the FilePage Setup dialog, and
then with the cursor in the paragraph for which I want to suppress the line
numbers, I select Paragraph from the Format menu and then go to the Line and
Page Breaks tab and check the "Suppress line numbers" box, the line numbers
are removed from the paragraph in which the cursor is located, and the
number of the first line in the next paragraph is one more than the number
of the last line of the preceding paragraph - that is, for the paragraph in
which the line numbers are suppressed, the lines are not counted.

The following is what I get.

1 The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
2 The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
3 The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

4 The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
5 The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
6 The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
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Hope this helps.


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"dianaiad" wrote in message
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Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
Is anybody anywhere paying any attention to my apparently overlooked
answer
about turning off line numbering for selected paragraphs? sigh



I'm deeply sorry, Suzanne, this is my fault. I'm scattered these
days...being a grad student at my age is a little wearing on the memory
cells.

I have tried your idea of turning off numbering for selected
paragraphs; however, I must not be doing it right, because what happens
for me is that while Word may not show the line numbers for selected
text, it still COUNTS them, so that when the numbers reappear, it's
obvious that all the lines have been counted, including the intervening
text, not just the lines of the poetry.

Diana