Open bracket before a numbered heading?

[Puffanddee]

In Word 2003, how do you get an open bracket before a numbered heading? I
tried using an advance field code to move the bracket to the left, but the
whole paragraph also moved to the left? What I'm trying to achieve should
look as follows: (law firms frequently use this)

1.1 Paragraph text..........
[1.2 Paragraph text, etc., etc., etc.]
1.3 Paragraph text

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

I can achieve that (when using a heading style) by inserting the following
after the end of the text

#.# Heading Text]{ ADVANCE \L ### }[

If you have a multiline paragraph, you would need to put that field code
somewhere in the first line and the follow the [ with another { ADVANCE \R
### } so that the following text was in the right position.

A bit of juggling of the ### is required to get things in the right place in
both cases

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Thinking about this some more, it would be better to put the Advance fields
immediately before the text in the heading as then the ### would always be
the same. In fact, if you have to do it often, it would be good idea to
create and autotext entry that contained the fields and the [.

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Hope this helps.

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services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP