Threads Replies Last Post 18 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18   Updating Caption Numbers I have a Word 2007 document that was prepared by pasting from several other documents. As a result the Caption Numbers are not sequential. I can update each caption number by selection each one at a time and choosing update field. Surely there is some way (short of VBA code) to update all the captions at one time and have them all sequentially numbered. Thanks, Will ... 3 10/28/2008 10:11:26 AM lost style formatting when removing page break Hi, I was wondering if anyone might be able to help me out. I just want to know a proper way to solve the following scenario. for example, 1.3 Promising balh blah blah ----------- page break -------- 1.4 Something else blah blah What i would like to do is to remove the page break. However, the problem i have is when i remove the page break, it's stuffing up the 1.4 heading. I... 2 10/27/2008 10:44:46 AM Seq Field with \* ARABIC show numbers in English Digits?! I have inserted a Seq Field with \* ARABIC and its show numbers like this: Ùˆ 1Ùˆ 2Ùˆ 3Ùˆ , But when I close the Document and reopen it (or after a Select All and pressing F9) numbers change to this: 1, 2, 3, (english digits instead of arabic) What should i do to see digits in arabic not english? Another question is after inserting this field it automatically adds \* MERGEFORMAT !!!!!... 4 10/24/2008 10:43:53 AM How can I format cells to display percentages with a + or - sign? I would like to format some cells that show positive percentages with a preceding plus sign and negative percentages with a preceding minus sign. Is this possible?... 2 10/22/2008 10:03:47 PM Tab Spaces in Numbering Hi there, I'm working on a template in which I want the first heading looks like this: Chapter 5 TITLE OF CHAPTER The [Chapter 5] part is the grey (field) part. I want the TITLE OF CHAPTER part to automatically show on the second line, not on the first line next to the field. The only way I know of doing this is by clicking Heading 1>Modify>Numbering>Customize>Outline Nu... 5 10/21/2008 10:22:20 PM Numbering letters I have a folder ABC, with subfolders "01","02",... These folders contain letters about subjects "01", "02",... The filenames of these letters start with a number e.g. "01" contains a letter "1385.ToMisterX.DealXYZ" and folder "02" contains a letter "1386.ToMisterY.DealABC" How do I create a button (Macro), that when pressed, goes trough all the subfolders "01","02",..., finds the highest... 2 10/20/2008 12:54:56 AM Word automatic number above 100 issue resolution without using SEQ I have seen multiple posts on this but I found an easier way around the issue. I am using Word 2007. When numbering paragraphs using the list numbering and trying to number paragraphs as follows (0001....0010....0099....0100) there is an issue. 0100 becomes 00100. This is because the list number is just inserting 2 leading zeros no matter what the number is. The common approach to g... 1 10/15/2008 10:33:02 PM Outlline is there a way to convert an outline to a multile level bullet list and vices a versa?... 4 10/15/2008 2:17:07 PM Word 2007 error when opening document with bullet styles I created a document in Word 2003 with several bullet styles. When I try to open it in Word 2007, I get an error. Word 2007 makes repairs to those styles in order to open the document. However, the repairs strip out the bullets. How can I get these bullet styles to work in Word 2007?... 1 10/14/2008 5:30:01 PM converting autonumbers into hard-coded static numbers In MS Word, we currently number heading levels: Section 1, 1.1, 1.1.1, Section 2, 2.1, etc.. These numbers auto-increment throughout the document and are used to generate the TOC and cross-references. We need a tool to freeze this Section numbering system (after we finalize the file and generate the TOC, etc) and "hard-code" the numbers as regular text (keep the numbers but remove the a... 5 10/14/2008 1:35:49 AM Incorrect Paragraph Lettering Thanks to Stephan Blom and Shauna Kelly the numbering of headings seems to be behaving itself. Unfortunately it appears that Word will not let me off the hook that easily. My template includes an alphabetically numbered paragraph. It refuses to respond to the "Restart Numbering" command. How can I bring this under control? Thanks -- Rick Duley Perth, Western Australia 6006 ... 2 6/28/2007 12:18:40 PM Incorrect Paragraph Numbering I got a bit ahead of myself. Consider this: 4. ACTIONS 1.1 General Instructions • All personnel working in or around Sections/Segments of the Dead Main and its associated structures (e.g. manholes, pump stations, pits, excavations) shall know and keep to the relevant Work Instructions; • No Person who has not completed the required tra... 2 6/28/2007 8:47:32 AM Start page numbering as page 1 actually on page 6 Is it possible to number the 6th page as page 1? I want the first 5 pages for title, copyright info, table of contents, etc. and the actual text (of the book) to start on page 6 (as Page 1). Thanks for your help. PS I'm using Word 2002 -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com ... 2 6/28/2007 2:13:22 AM Incorrect Paragraph Numbering I have created a template with four levels of headings and sub-paragraphs. The headings are outline numbered. If, for example, I have a heading (Level One) such as "4 DEFINITIONS" and I attempt to create a sub-heading (Level Two) I get "1.1 Terms" instead of "4.1 terms". This is not solved by right-clicking and selecting "Continue Numbering" All help appreciated Thanks -- R... 2 6/27/2007 8:32:41 AM Incorrect Paragraph Numbering Please note that in this and the pevious posting I am referring to work in Word 2003. I have another numbering problem in the same template. I can't get the letters to restart at "a". Consider the example below. 4 DEFINITIONS a) Terms b) Acronyms c) Regulations 5 RESPONSIBLE PERSONNEL c) I've tried everything I can think of but Word 2003 seems to h... 1 6/27/2007 5:36:01 AM Continuous Page Numbering after inserting two colunms In a single column Word (2003 or 2007) I want to insert two columns while maintaining consecutive page numbers on my document. It seems that when I insert the two columns, the page numbering on the next page starts out as "one" instead of what it was (ie. page 5) ... 4 6/25/2007 8:59:29 PM Cannot reset heading number in Word 2007 I created my own style and I cannot get the numbering to reset / restart for each heading section. For example, I. A. B. II C. (should be A) I don't see any way to do this in the menus for the style definition, and clicking numbering -> custom -> "restart list" doesn't work either. Is it a bug with word 2007? I've searched the help and here and google to no avail! I get stu... 1 6/24/2007 2:14:12 PM Outline number tab space after I am working in Word XP. I am modifying Heading 1 to have ARTICLE 1 numbering. I would like to have no tab space after the ARTICLE 1 number as I will be putting in a Shift+Enter to have the text for this heading on a second line. Even if I define the heading numbering with the tab space after as 0, it still puts in a half inch tab after the ARTICLE 1 so my centering does not align prop... 4 6/23/2007 2:56:59 AM Page Numbering I have a word document that I will be printing as a book (pages back 2 back). I want all pf the page numbers to be on the bottom outside corner. to do this I would need even numered page number aligned to the right and odd numbered pages aligned to the left. Is there any easy way to do this? It is a large document (30 or so pages).... 3 6/13/2007 3:24:42 AM Outline numbering is whacked I feel I am a pretty good MS Word user, and rarely have a problem I can't solve, but this is one of those occasions. So far, I've been able to get Outline Numbering to do what I want, i.e. the correct level, numbering, etc. I am using the relatively simple 1.0 - 1.1 - 1.1.1 type of numbering, using the menu selections "Format" > "Bullets and Numbering." I have now encountere... 2 6/12/2007 6:36:15 PM Edit Word Caption Autonumbering Hi. I am using Word 2007 and I am having a problem that was already present in 2003 but I thought it would be fixed. The problem is the following: I have inserted a lot of images in a document. And now that im in the middle of finishing the document I was going to insert the captions in sequence. However Word sequences images in the order that they were inserted. But more than a few tim... 2 6/11/2007 10:59:33 AM Modifying page numbering Hi, I have a user that has a large document and has setup in the header the page numbering option. In two different places in the document, she wants to be able to have a page number remain the same for the following page but with an a added to it. For ex: Page 124 and 124a When she does it manually for that one page, then the following pages numbers do not go back to let say 125 then ... 3 6/8/2007 5:41:03 PM Merged document numbering issues The company I work for uses an application that takes mulitple word documents and merges them into one meta-document with Section Breaks between each document. This document is then faxed or emailed. Our problem is with page numbering. We use templates for the documents, and in the footers have { Page } of { SectionPages } which unfortunately gives us pages that number like this: 1 of 2... 3 6/8/2007 1:40:36 PM Need LISTNUM field to only show odd number I need to insert a field on that will increment by 2. For example, page one is numbered 3, page 2 is numbered 5, etc. Does anyone know the formula/switch to do this? Thanks, Kim ... 5 6/4/2007 7:27:41 PM Continuous page numbering. I am using Word 2002 SP3 I am an infrequent user. I am very conversant with Access and VBA if that helps because I am aware that code can be used in a text box to give page numbers, The Problem. I have inherited a document that is published annually and I need to use the existing format and update some of the data. The first 96 pages are vertical format, a continuous break is in use... 4 6/4/2007 6:49:59 AM 18 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18