RE: Value of giving up numbering in Word?

["Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>]

Manually type numbers for hundreds of pages? *That's* your low-risk
solution?

If you want higher quality at a lower cost, use a simple macro to
replace their autonumbers with stable Word fields. You can also do this
with a Search-and-Replace.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: stevefjong
> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 5:38 PM
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: RE: Value of giving up numbering in Word?
> 
> Of late I have been working with Word files 
> created by third parties, which we have been 
> rebranding or (sometimes) reworking. Many have 
> numbered procedural lists created using Word's 
> automatic list-numbering feature, and they can be 
> nightmarish. We don't have the luxury of building 
> clean documents; we have to take what we get and 
> make them work... If your procedural lists are 
> fairly stable, it might be a wise idea to give 
> up on autonumbering and just type the numbers by 
> hand. I acknowledge my heresy, and realize that 
> it's a manual and error-prone step, but if you 
> do a risk-benefit analysis, you just might agree 
> with me.
> 

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