Re: Taming Word's Autonumbering

[dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com]

Jeff Hanvey wrote:
> 
> Can someone give me a nice, easy way to...reset numbering,
> keep the corporate style, et cetera?

Here's how to get solid numbered lists every time:

For the first item in a NUMBERED list:

  { SEQ numlist \# "0" \r 1 \* MERGEFORMAT }


For the other items in a NUMBERED list:

  { SEQ numlist \# "0" \n \* MERGEFORMAT }


For the first item in a LETTERED list:

  { SEQ ltrlist \* alphabetic \r 1 \* MERGEFORMAT }


For the other items in a LETTERED list:

  { SEQ ltrlist \* alphabetic \n \* MERGEFORMAT }


Of course, you don't have to name them "numlist" and "ltrlist."

But if you always use the same names, you'll never get errors with
overlapping lists.  I put each in a uniquely named autotext entry, 
and now...

LISTS ARE NO PROBLEM IN WORD.

As for styles, create two levels of hanging-indented paragraphs, just in case you need to nest, like this:
1.  as dfa sdf
    a.  ads fa sdf
    b.  as dfasd fas df
2.  asd fasd fasdf

No macros, nothing complicated:  just four autotext entries and two paragraph styles, and you're set.

--David 
 
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