Numbering: heading styles and normal text

[Murray]

I've had a request to set up normal text styles based on heading
styles, so that it will follow the numbering but not appear in the
table of contents. Searching the groups I found the following question
and answer (http://groups.google.com.au/group/
microsoft.public.word.numbering/msg/1b8c6655dbdee986, also reproduced
below). The question is exactly what I want to do, and the answer
almost gets it.

The problem is that the numbers of the normal text style appear bold,
the same as they are for the heading style, and everything I have
tried to change it mucks up the numbering or something else of the
heading styles.

Any suggestions on how to keep the heading style numbers bold but make
the text style numbers non-bold?

Regards

Murray

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Create new styles based on the Heading styles. DO NOTHING to outline
numbering through these styles, or your Heading styles may lose their
numbering. Change the format of the new styles to match normal text,
e.g.,
not bold, not keep with next, etc. They will follow the same outline
as the
headings but with normal text formatting and not appearing in the
TOC.

cjd

 

[Stefan Blom]

If the *text* of the heading style should be bold, then this can be done,
because a paragraph number will have the same formatting as the rest of the
paragraph.

However, if you want the heading style not to be bold, but the heading
number to be bold, then there is no way to prevent the "child" style to
share the bold formatting (since that formatting is saved with the numbering
scheme).

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


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[Murray]

Stefan

Thank you for your response. I have not completely understood the
answer, suggesting perhaps I didn't explain it clearly enough. Here's
a summary of what I wish to do:

Style "Heading 2" is all bold, including the outline number (eg 1.1,
2.1, 2.2 etc)
Style "Numbering 2" is based on "Heading 2", so it has the same
outline numbering system, but the font and paragraph properties are
modified to make it look like body text (this bit I have done).
Additionally, I want the outline numbers to be NOT bold (this is the
part that I cannot achieve).

When I use style "Numbering 2", it looks like eg

2.1 This is a Numbering 2 style line

And is all correct, with the exception that the outline number (2.1)
is bold.

Does this make it any more clear?

Regards

Murray

 

[Stefan Blom]

But did you explicitly format the outline number as bold, via the Customize
Outline Numbered List dialog box (Define New Multilevel List in Word 2007)?

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


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