[Klaus Linke]

Hi John,

You could add your own numbered bookmarks for all the lines.
The macro below does that. It should work in simple cases, though not if you suppressed numbering for some paragraphs or styles, or if you don't restart numbering on each page...
The bookmarks all have the form myPXX_LYY where XX is the (adjusted) page number, and YY is the line number.
If you're done, you can delete all bookmarks starting with "my" using the second macro.

Regards,
Klaus

Sub myBookmarksLineNumbers()
Dim myLine As Line
Dim myPage As Page
Dim sBookmarkNamePage As String
Dim sBookmarkNameLine As String

For Each myPage In ActiveDocument.ActiveWindow.Panes(1).Pages
sBookmarkNamePage = "myP" & myPage.Rectangles(1).Range.Information(wdActiveEnd AdjustedPageNumber)
For Each myLine In myPage.Rectangles(1).lines
sBookmarkNameLine = "L" & myLine.Range.Information(wdFirstCharacterLineNumbe r)
ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.Add _
Name:=sBookmarkNamePage & "_" & sBookmarkNameLine, _
Range:=myLine.Range
Next myLine
Next myPage
End Sub

Sub myBookmarksDelete()
Dim myBookmark As Bookmark
For Each myBookmark In ActiveDocument.Bookmarks
If left(myBookmark.Name, 2) = "my" Then
myBookmark.Delete
End If
Next myBookmark
End Sub



"John" schrieb im Newsbeitrag ...
Hi guys,

I posted this question not long ago but I must have been unclear because
the replies were fixing a different problem.

I have WinXP with Word 2003. I set LINE NUMBERING on (in the LAYOUT tab
of PAGE SETUP).

Is there a way to make line numbering fixed such that each line with a
particular line number retains that line number even if the line is
moved from one place to another in the document during editing?

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Alternatively, how can I number the paragraphs such that if I move the
paragraphs around during document editing, the paragraphs retain their
paragraph number.

Maybe I can start with auto paragraph numbering and then convert those
variable numbers into fixed text? But how do I later remove the numbers
embedded in the text?

John