Restart numbering in Heading styles

[Jan Martel]

This is getting worse and worse. I know list numbering is a pain. I know
there are all sorts of problems. But I thought this was a simple thing and
shouldn¹t cause a problem. So, I formatted my headings to have numbering.
Heading 1's numbering continues throughout the document, but I want heading
2 to restart each time there's a new heading 1 and heading 3 to restart each
time there's a new heading 2. So, I just did a new heading 1 and then put in
a heading 2 and it's continuing from before. I tried doing Format>Bullets &
Numbers and the "restart" button is grey. I tried
Format>Style>Modify>Numbers but there isn't a "restart" button there. I
looked in Word Help without getting any answers. So I'm here again .
Help!

 

[Jan Martel]

Thanks, Beth,

I did reread the MVP numbering articles, and *maybe* they were what solved
my problem, or else it was just luck. I went back and redid the styles using
the Numbering Templates for "outline numbering" instead of just "numbering,"
because there was an implication in one of the articles that that was the
set of templates to use for headings. I hoped that would make it just do the
right thing - after all in an outline if you have:
1.
A
B
C
2.
X

The X should be A, not D. But it didn't. However, it did miraculously free
up the "restart numbering" button so I could highlight X (which of course
was D) and go to Format->Bullets and Numbering and click on "restart
numbering" and get it to be A. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it won't
come back to haunt me later (since the one thing the MVP articles seem to
say is that you should use styles and not the Format->Bullets and Numbering
to format lists).

 

[Jan Martel]

Responding to my own post, and with many thanks to Clive who pointed me to
the Formatting.LongDocs newsgroup, and a question there that was answered
with a reference to
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numbering/OutlineNumbering.html I now think
I understand numbering headings. Yes, I know, a little knowledge is a
dangerous thing . The problems I was having were because I hadn't noticed
the little blue down-pointing arrow at the bottom of the Format->Bullets and
Numbering box. Clicking on that (in outline numbered) got me to the guts of
this - the place where you can link a numbering template to a style and also
tell it to restart numbering when an earlier level changes. Now my headings
are numbering and lettering themselves .

 

[Beth Rosengard]

Hi Jan,

That's good news and thanks for posting back to the group. Did Clive email
you off-group? Bad Clive ! It's always best to post to the group so
that others may benefit from the responses.

--
Beth Rosengard
Mac MVP

Mac Word FAQ: <http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/WordMac/index.html>
Entourage Help Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html>

 

[Clive Huggan]

[Thinks: Bother! Caught out! Should I let it slide, or should I bluff my way
out in case my next indiscretion gets me sent home with a Stiff Note to
Mother, like when I could have been court-martialled in 1974. Nah, bluff it
out...]

Umm, er, Beth, UIASFASM (unless I am suffering from a Senior's Moment),
after mentioning in my response on this newsgroup to Jan's table problem
that the version of my notes, "Bend Word to Your Will", on the MVP website
had a misprint I subsequently remembered some other amendments to the
coverage of that topic. The new version of BWTYW is ready for uploading (the
present version on the MVP website having been uploaded on 13 May) but since
John the Great Uploader is away right now I quietly offered Jan (and
subsequently sent with her concurrence) a copy of the latest one. Forgive,
please, my spontaneous over-enthusiasm. It was Jan's fault really -- *she*
caused me to have an overwhelming sense of gratitude for her wonderful
suggestion for a substitute/addition to the Work menu, which was an answer
to a maiden's prayer (never knew the maiden herself, but I hear she was
certainly prayerful).

Anyway, to the two other people watching this topic (not that they'll be
reading my drivel here), the newer version of BWTYW will have the amendments
in when it's uploaded soon.

But er, yes, I was naughty. Not perhaps bad, but well, umm, naughty. I shall
now sob inconsolably in the corner, in the foetal position, for a good 12
hours, for my procedural indiscretion. (You think I'm kidding? Just stick
your head out of the window into the quiet, balmy Californian night air,
point your ear south-west, and concentrate hard. That isn't a wailing
pussycat -- it's coming over the Pacific Ocean. But then again, it might
just be someone whingeing in New Zealand] :-/

-- Clive
[Please don't *ever* e-mail me direct, anybody, unless you want to sign the
petition that says what a decent bloke I am. But then again, I'm not,
really.]

Now, where was I? ... Trying to earn a living, I think...

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[Beth Rosengard]

Clive, you wailing pussycat, you can email me direct any time you want <vbg>

Beth

[Thinks: Bother! Caught out! Should I let it slide, or should I bluff my way
out in case my next indiscretion gets me sent home with a Stiff Note to
Mother, like when I could have been court-martialled in 1974. Nah, bluff it
out...]

Umm, er, Beth, UIASFASM (unless I am suffering from a Senior's Moment),
after mentioning in my response on this newsgroup to Jan's table problem
that the version of my notes, "Bend Word to Your Will", on the MVP website
had a misprint I subsequently remembered some other amendments to the
coverage of that topic. The new version of BWTYW is ready for uploading (the
present version on the MVP website having been uploaded on 13 May) but since
John the Great Uploader is away right now I quietly offered Jan (and
subsequently sent with her concurrence) a copy of the latest one. Forgive,
please, my spontaneous over-enthusiasm. It was Jan's fault really -- *she*
caused me to have an overwhelming sense of gratitude for her wonderful
suggestion for a substitute/addition to the Work menu, which was an answer
to a maiden's prayer (never knew the maiden herself, but I hear she was
certainly prayerful).

Anyway, to the two other people watching this topic (not that they'll be
reading my drivel here), the newer version of BWTYW will have the amendments
in when it's uploaded soon.

But er, yes, I was naughty. Not perhaps bad, but well, umm, naughty. I shall
now sob inconsolably in the corner, in the foetal position, for a good 12
hours, for my procedural indiscretion. (You think I'm kidding? Just stick
your head out of the window into the quiet, balmy Californian night air,
point your ear south-west, and concentrate hard. That isn't a wailing
pussycat -- it's coming over the Pacific Ocean. But then again, it might
just be someone whingeing in New Zealand] :-/

-- Clive
[Please don't *ever* e-mail me direct, anybody, unless you want to sign the
petition that says what a decent bloke I am. But then again, I'm not,
really.]

Now, where was I? ... Trying to earn a living, I think...

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Hi Jan,

That's good news and thanks for posting back to the group. Did Clive email
you off-group? Bad Clive ! It's always best to post to the group so
that others may benefit from the responses.