9 levels of outline indentation is not enough!

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Bob Boudewyns

Friends, I am working on a lengthy document that needs (probably) 15 or more
levels of outline indentation.

Is there a way to do this in Word? I'm currently still using Word 2003.

Is there a work around? Are there other products that might give me more
outline levels as well as a decent word processor?

Any suggestions appreciated!

Bob.
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

Aside from the issue of whether the human brain can even comprehend that
many levels, how do you differentiate them once you've exhausted I, A, 1, a,
i, etc.? Or do you propose to use 1, 1.1, 1.1.1 all the way to
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1?
 
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Bob Boudewyns

Hi, Suzanne,

thanks for your reply.

My brain is quite human, I assure you! My last project like this reached 22
levels at one point in the outline; it just depends on the type of analysis
being done. However, that was a manual project and I really hope to
computerize the next one.

So far as differentiating, I could use any concise series of numbers and
digits combined with parens or brackets, I would really be using spatial
indentation as my primary visual context indicator. In a manual project I
usually use 1/4 inch graph paper to keep levels aligned.

I really would like to use Word, it provides so many useful tools plus the
ability to easily edit.

Is one really limited to 9 levels of indentation in a Word outline? Is there
no way to expand this? Could one define styles that would be easy to use? Of
course one of the great advantages with Word outlines is that one can
reassign levels so easily.

Anyway, any suggestions appreciated! Or, if it just can't be usefully done
in Word it would be better to know now than later.

Bob



| Aside from the issue of whether the human brain can even comprehend that
| many levels, how do you differentiate them once you've exhausted I, A, 1,
a,
| i, etc.? Or do you propose to use 1, 1.1, 1.1.1 all the way to
| 1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1?
|
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| Suzanne S. Barnhill
| Microsoft MVP (Word)
| Words into Type
| Fairhope, Alabama USA
|
| | > Friends, I am working on a lengthy document that needs (probably) 15 or
| > more
| > levels of outline indentation.
| >
| > Is there a way to do this in Word? I'm currently still using Word 2003.
| >
| > Is there a work around? Are there other products that might give me more
| > outline levels as well as a decent word processor?
| >
| > Any suggestions appreciated!
| >
| > Bob.
| >
| >
| >
|
|
 
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Tim Murray

Friends, I am working on a lengthy document that needs (probably) 15 or more
levels of outline indentation.

Is there a way to do this in Word? I'm currently still using Word 2003.

Is there a work around? Are there other products that might give me more
outline levels as well as a decent word processor?

The only app I know that can handle that is FrameMaker. But it sounds like
you might need to organize differently -- the brain doesn't give a crap after
two or three levels of hierarchy.
 
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Robert

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Peter A

no- said:
The only app I know that can handle that is FrameMaker. But it sounds like
you might need to organize differently -- the brain doesn't give a crap after
two or three levels of hierarchy.

I agree - there is a serious organizational problem with any document
that "needs" so many outline levels.
 

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