Programatically set numbering style

[Sanya Ibrahim]

Hello all, I want to set the paragraph numbering style of new Word 2007
documents as below:

1. Text

2. Text

(a) Text

(b) Text

I am able to set the numbering of the paragraphs, but not able to set the
space between paragraphs and numbering style for the sub-paragraphs. One
reason is that I am not able to recognise if the new paragraph is a
sub-paragraph.

Can anyone help me?

Sanya

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

You should define the Styles in the template and then apply the Styles as
required.

To learn how to define the numbered Styles properly, see the following page
of fellow MVP Shauna Kelly's website:

http://www.ShaunaKelly.com/word/numbering/OutlineNumbering.html

If you need to know how to create a template to hold your numbering scheme,
see:

Creating a Template - The Basics (Part I)
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/CreateATemplatePart1.htm

Creating a Template (Part II)
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/CreateATemplatePart2.htm


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[Sanya Ibrahim]

Thanks a lot. Sorry, but I really missed to mention that I wanted to do this
in VBA.

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Why wouldn't you create a template to be used as the basis of the new
documents that you want to create?

It is then a simple matter to use vba to create a new document from that
template and insert text into the document and apply the relevant styles to
it.

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[Sanya Ibrahim]

Thanks for that. That sounds more practical. Just one question though; is it
possible for me to create a number of templates and list them in a form
combobox? I actually wanted to do something similar to that initially.
Sanya

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Yes, that can certainly be done.

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[Sanya Ibrahim]

Thanks.
One last question. How do I get the list of templates? Do I create the
templates and save them in a location or is there a default location where
all the templates are saved. (I found a lot of queries in the web regarding
the location of Word 2007 templates). How do I retrieve the list of
templates?
Sanya

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

You could put all of the applicable templates in a separate folder and then
use code similar to that in the following article to get the names of them

See the article "Insert into a document the names of all files in a selected
folder†at:

http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/InsertFileNames.htm

For loading the names into a listbox or combobox, See the following page of
Greg Maxey's website :

http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Populate_UserForm_ListBox.htm

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[Sanya Ibrahim]

Thank you very much.
I really appreciate your help and guidance.

Sanya