Outline Numbering

[mcp6453]

How can I permanently change the available outline numbering formats in
Word 2000? Someone posted a helpful article previously, but I cannot
locate it. None of the choices is what I want, and if I modify one, it
only stays modified for that document.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You can't change the Word defaults. What you can do is create the numbering
scheme you want in a template and then base your documents on that template.

 

[mcp6453]

You can't change the Word defaults. What you can do is create the numbering
scheme you want in a template and then base your documents on that template.

Is that true for newer versions of Word, as well? It seems like there
should be a way to customize normal.dot.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You can indeed customize *styles* in Normal.dot; what you can't do is
customize the numbering formats in the List Gallery in such a way that you
can be sure what number format you'll get if you use the Numbering button on
the Formatting toolbar (which always applies the last-used number format).