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Message: [QUOTE="Dayo Mitchell, post: 6839799"] Hi Julia, I posted a bunch more links for you over on the docmanagement group. But you probably want to start with this one, which should clarify the numbering stuff. I've never used numbering/figures/captions myself, but if using the Appendix workaround, then you might be right that you don't want the Intro title formatted in the same style as Chapter 1. See: How to create numbered headings or outline numbering in your Word document <URL: [URL]http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numbering/OutlineNumbering.html[/URL]> On the other hand, it's possible that setting numbering up this way will allow you to have a Chapter zero, which would solve a lot of issues. I really don't know how those chapter numbers are set. I think you should post the Chapter Zero question to the numbering group, Shauna Kelly might answer. As long as the Intro title is formatted with a style that includes an Outline level, it will get included in the TOC, though you might need to click on Options in the TOC dialog to tell Word exactly which styles to use to build the TOC. Those two links probably explain it better than I can. Oh! The outline level used to build the TOC *is* something different from the outline numbering level. That's probably confusing you. I'm not sure exactly how they are different, but I know they are different entities and settings. And I haven't a clue what conditions are necessary for Word to autogenerate a Table of Figures, etc. In your situation, I would probably make a copy of the whole file, shorten it to have only a couple of subsections in each intro/chapter (just so that there's less text to deal with, but at least one example of each level and table/figure/etc that you need to deal with), and start applying formatting and creating TOCs, tables of figures, etc, to see what happens. And probably copy all the text into a doc based on a new test template so you can experiment freely, and save your changes back to that template. Then once you have that mini-diss settled, your template should be set, and, you should be able to copy the full version into a doc based on the new template and format it very quickly. (you can find and replace styles, by the way, or set shortcut keys to apply them). I think if you experiment as you read the suggested webpages, learning will go faster than if you just try to understand what they are saying. Once you figure out what styles to apply to everything, creating the TOC/F/T should go smoothly. I wouldn't merge the Intro and Chapter 1, if just because starting Chapter 1 with figure 1-3 will be very strange. Alternatively, your TOC could look like this: Chapter 1--Introduction [and some text to make it sound better] Chapter 2--Title (formerly chapter 1) Chapter 3--Title (formerly chapter 2) Which is uncommon, but I don't know of any thesis czar rules that say the introduction can't also be called a chapter, or that say you have to have an introduction, and if your husband accepts it, it would solve a lot of issues. I feel as though introductions often wouldn't have figures, so it's possible there's been little need to work out this problem. Then you would only have to figure out standard numbering, which is honestly complicated enough. Hope that helps. For specific questions, you're probably better off posting on word.numbering, or word.docmanagement, or word.formatting.longdocs. Since the numbering is the most complicated issue, probably best to post there. Dayo [/QUOTE]

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