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Subject:Section Numbering in Word From:Joe Miller <joemiller -at- CANBERRA -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 20 Nov 1997 09:57:05 -0500
I thought I had posted this yesterday, but it never came back
to me from OKSTATE, so maybe it got lost.
We're pushing a deadline, so we're going to use an existing
Word doc written by engineering instead of typesetting it.
(We'll do that when the crunch has passed.) Here's our
problem:
We want to set the chapter titles in 24 pt. Helvetica and the
major headings in 14 pt. Helvetica. But when we create the
second level (1.2), the chapter head's number (1) is still 24 pt.
while the major heading number (2) is 14 pt. This looks bizarre,
to say the least.
Is there a way to make both numbers the same size or does
Word not allow this? If necessary, we'll make all heading the
same size in order to ship a manual that makes sense on time,
even though it looks amateurish.