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Auto-restart numbering for custom styles
Greetings word experts, Thanks for reading this. I have created custom styles for use in a script document. I've created a "Chapter" style which is based on heading 1, and a "Topic" style which i...
This may be done using mulitlevel list numbering or using SEQ fields.
- How to create numbered headings or outline numbering in Ribbon Versions of Word by Shauna Kelly
- SEQuence Field
You would want your topic numbering to be level 2.
If using list numbering, each level must be attached to a different paragraph style.
I did as the article suggested and it works great!
The only challenge I encountered was that once I removed my custom paragraph styles from being based on the original heading styles, they disappeared from the navigation pane.
A quick google search came up with the root cause that their outline level was set back to the default and all I had to do was manually change the outline level back to 1 and 2 respectively, and all is good!
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Glad to have helped.
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