RE: Word (2007) - heading number *after* heading text ?

["David Artman" <david -at- davidartman -dot- com>]

   Man, I'm glad I use FrameMaker. ;)

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   Subject: Re: Word (2007) - heading number *after* heading text ?
   From: "Monique Semp" <[1]monique -dot- semp -at- earthlink -dot- net>
   Date: Wed, May 15, 2013 1:37 pm
   To: "Kath Bowman" <[2]Kath -dot- Bowman -at- au -dot- saabgroup -dot- com>, "TechWR-L"
   <[3]techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
   > Like you, I've never seen heading numbering follow the heading text.
   > However you could simulate this by using a sequence field at the end
   of
   > (unnumbered) heading text. Then I'd add macros for each heading level
   to
   > apply the appropriate style and add the sequence field at the end.
   Yes, it came to me last night that the solution would take a combo of
   sequence fields, header/footer text box and graphic elements, and ToC
   manipulation. And today's investigation involved style refs, and TC
   fields
   (which themselves can contain field values).
   If you're interested in the gory details of Word, here's what worked:
   * Set the Heading 1 style to be non-numbered.
   * Add a sequence field to the headings' text for the chapter number,
   and set
   the field to Hidden font so that it does not display.
   * In the footer, add a text box to hold a sequence field for the
   chapter
   number, and use the \c switch so it doesn't increment. Also, this text
   box
   needed to be in the footer, not header, so it would pick up the desired
   chapter number (instead of the previous one, from the previous page).
   Although this is in the footer, it actually is positioned near the top
   of
   the page, alongside-and-right of the heading text. And I locked the
   text box
   in place so that it wouldn't keep popping up to the header.
   * Create two versions of the Heading 1 style ("Heading 1 1-line" and
   "Heading 1 2-lines") to manage the fact that some chapter headings take
   up
   two lines, but I want all of them to end in the same vertical position
   (so
   that they align properly with the text box that's holding the chapter
   number).
   * Also on the footer, add the graphic line element that I want to
   appear
   under the heading text. (I couldn't just include a lower border in the
   paragraph style because the heading 1 styles have a right indent so
   that
   they don't obscure the chapter number text box, and I want this line
   element
   to appear under both the heading text and the chapter number text box.)
   * At the end of the heading text para (but still in it), add a TC field
   so
   that the heading appears in the Table of Contents. I couldn't just
   include
   the heading 1 styles because then the chapter number wouldn't appear
   (because the headings aren't numbered). This TC field is complicated
   because
   it needs to include the chapter sequence number so that the number
   appears
   in the ToC. And unfortunately, I have to retype the heading text
   because a
   Styleref field would be self-referential. So here's what the TC field
   looks
   like:
   { TC "{ SEQ Chapter \c \* MERGEFORMAT } <tab char> <heading text>" \f C
   \l
   "1" }
   * In the Table of Contents field, add the "\f" field to include the TC
   entries, and remove the heading 1s from the included styles.
   Whew -- I think that's it, but of course YMMV. Now all I have to do is
   duplicate for the appendixes :-).
   -Monique

References

   1. mailto:monique -dot- semp -at- earthlink -dot- net
   2. mailto:Kath -dot- Bowman -at- au -dot- saabgroup -dot- com
   3. mailto:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
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