Re: PageMaker 6.0 Numbered Lists

[Jane Bergen <janeb -at- ANSWERSOFT -dot- COM>]

On 13 Jan 97 at 10:52, Roger Morency wrote:

> I was wondering if anyone knows of a macro or trick that will
> automatically number steps in a procedure using PM6? I know
> Framemaker will do this easily, but in PageMaker, I it seems that I
> have to type in the every step. Example:
>
> Step 1:  blah blah blah
> Step 2:  blah blah blah
> Step 3:  blah blah blah
>      .
>      .
>      .
> Step N:  blah blah blah
>
> This gets really annoying when a step has to be added near the
> beginning of a sequence. I have to manually go in and re-number each
> subsequent step. Since our doc department has several writers using
> this style for numbered procedures, a macro or some other way to
> automate this task would be a big time saver.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Roger

You're kidding, right? PageMaker does automatic numbering with no
problems.... You can set it up individually for paragraphs or as a
style. I just looked in the online help under "Numbering" to make
sure the help is there....

Jane Bergen

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