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numbering_request clarifying
W2k, Word 2003
I have read Shauna Kelly's wonderful attempt to straighten out the Word numbering morass, and am trying to adapt it to my needs. I am scanning, OCR'ing 50 year old docs and converting them to Word files. Most of these are minutes of meetings, with most paragraphs numbered and sub-paragraphs limited to (usually) 1. She suggests revising built-in heading styles to accomodate this. I don't really want to change the first few built-in heading styles because they are useful on different documents. I simply want to make "normal" paragraphs with normal fonts into paragraphs to which I can apply a numbering scheme. Following her lead, I chose to use Heading styles 6, 7, and 8 and convert them to this use, using her plan to base 6 on "no style", 7 on style 6, and so on. But if that is the correct approach, what level do I select for #6 which is my top level for the numbering scheme, which I want to be "1", "a" and "i", or something similar, and will yield no indent for level 1, about .4" for level 2, with following lines after each not indented but brought out to the indent level of the altest number. In reading this over, I'm not making myself clear. I want to be able to apply a style to a paragraph of my choosing and have it be numbered "1" and then to be able to choose whether the next paragraph will be "a" or back to "normal". I can adjust the amount of indent etc. if I understand how best to create the styles, if her suggestion is the best to use in my case. Thanks! |