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Subject:RE: WORD numbering problem From:"Sharon Deitch" <Sharon -at- eshbel -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 5 Jan 2000 10:25:17 +0200
Benzi (and Sarah and anyone else who is interested),
You don't have to go so far as a macro to create easy-to-manage numbered
lists in Word.
Yes, create a style with the hanging indent, etc and use the LISTNUM fields,
but define them as AutoText instead. I have two defined, one for "1."
(defined as !!) and one for the rest of the list (defined as @@). This way,
I don't have to futz around with a macro every time I want a numbered list
item.
If I add an item in the middle of the list, I simply select the rest of the
items and press F9 to update the fields. I've had no problems at all with
managing lists in this manner.
>I recently had to create a Word template that included a style for numbered
lists. >After much research and help from listers, I abandoned Word's
built-in >numbering (it is too unstable) in favor of using the LISTNUM field
and macros.
