Amit

[Amit]

MS Word 97, Windows XP
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Hi,

I have created a table with 3 columns in a Word document. The first column
is Serial Number. Is there a way to update the value of Serial Number in
rows automatically when I add or delete a new row in/from the middle of the
table, instead of manually updating them?

Thanks!

-Amit

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Is this something you can use a SEQ field for? It won't update
*automatically* but will when you update fields.

 

[Fred Holmes]

This may not be the exact effect you want, but at least in Word 2003
you can select a column of the table and then click the "numbered
list" toolbar button and it will fill in a sequence of numbers in the
selected column.

 

[Amit]

Is this something you can use a SEQ field for? It won't update
*automatically* but will when you update fields.

Hi Suzanne,

I'm practically a newbie when it comes to MS Word (and more so with Styles
and Formatting...though I'm learning a few things thanks to your responses
.

I looked up SEQ in MS Help, and it led me to LISTNUM, which I think is
closer to what I'm looking for. But, I could not figure out the steps to set
up a field/column in a table with LISTNUM or SEQ.

Will appreciate it if you can outline the steps to accomplish that.

Thanks!

-Amit

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You'll have to add the fields manually, but if you save the correctly
formatted field as an AutoText entry and use AutoComplete to insert it, this
could go pretty quickly.