Stripping Automatic Numbering/Retain Styles

[jerem]

I am using Heading Styles that are associated with a third party software
numbering suite program (not using Word's native numbering provisions) and I
would like to be able to use the numbering suite, however, once getting all
the numbering in, I'd like to be able to strip the automatic numbering out,
retain the actual numbering as regular text - similar to stripping field
codes - and retain the style parameters that were set for the the heading
styles .

Example: If you use cross referencing within a document (or any field code
for that matter- CreateDate, etc.) you can strip the field code property and
have the actual information that the field code contained as regular text).
Is it possible to do that with automatic numbering?

If I copy the paragraphs that were autonumbered and do a paste special, the
numbers do remain as regular text and get disassociated from the automatic
numbering scheme (which is part of my intended goal), however, all the
formatting gets stripped out as well (which is not the desired effect). Any
help would be appreciated.

 

[Graham Mayor]

Depending on the document, the following might work for you.

Open the document in Word.

Save as RTF

Close the document.

Open the RTF file in WordPad

Save and close the file.

Open the file in Word. The automatic numbering should have gone but the
formatting should remain.

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[Klaus Linke]

You can turn the auto-numbering into regular text with a simple macro:
ActiveDocument.ConvertNumbersToText

If you want to continue to work on the document in Word after that, you
might want to then remove the numbering from the styles.

Regards,
Klaus

 

[Graham Mayor]

Don't you just hate it when you overlook the obvious?

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[Klaus Linke]

WordPad turns automatic numbering into hard text? I learned something new
from your post!

Klaus

 

[jerem]

Worked great, thanks