Copying autonumbered paragraphs and retaining original numbers

[Neil Humphries]

I need to copy numbered paragraphs from multiple documents. The paragraphs
are inconsistent and may be numbered using text, MS Word multi-level list
styles or listnum fields. I can search the documents, find the needed
paragraphs and copy them to a new document, but when I do, the numbering
resets according to the destination document's contents.

How do I retain the source document's numbering in the destination document
so the reader can determine where in the source document the paragraph came
from?

Can I convert all the numbering to text before pasting without affecting the
source documents?

 

[Graham Mayor]

You can convert the numbering to text before copying and it won't affect the
original documents provided you don't save them after making the changes.

Sub NumbersAutoToText()
ActiveDocument.ConvertNumbersToText
End Sub


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[Neil Humphries]

I just got back from Montreal. Thanks Graham, that works for me since I don't
need to save the source files.