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How do I create Paragraph Numbering that includes a Heading number
Yes, multiple body text styles will be required—one for each time you want to "reflect" the numbering of a corresponding numbered heading.
You can certainly make use of the "Style for following paragraph" setting (the way you can with any paragraph style in Word). For the most part, I suspect that you will have to explicitly apply the desired style, though, to achieve the desired format and number.
If you modify the numbering (in the Multilevel List dialog box), all "connected" styles will be affected: the Heading style as well as any body style which is based on the heading.
Yes, multiple body text styles will be required—one for each time you want to "reflect" the numbering of a corresponding numbered heading.
You can certainly make use of the "Style for following paragraph" setting (the way you can with any paragraph style in Word). For the most part, I suspect that you will have to explicitly apply the desired style, though, to achieve the desired format and number.
If you modify the numbering (in the Multilevel List dialog box), all "connected" styles will be affected: the Heading style as well as any body style which is based on the heading.
It does seem that I will need to apply appropriate manual vigilance to ensure the numbering does not go awry. Ideally I had hoped that it could be entirely automatic but that does not seem possible.
andez2k23 As it is very unlikely that the number of levels available in the Multi-Level List Numbering will ever be increased, if you can provide more information on what you want to do, we may be able to suggest another way of achieving it.
Perhaps uploading a document to a shared location may be the easiest way to demonstrate the requirement.
- Thanks for all of the useful info here. The current multi-level list works ok for me, but the 9 level restriction is a bit, well, restrictive.
I have added a request here to see if we can increase it:
https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/decf458e-20ca-ed11-a81b-000d3a0450e3 P. S. There is always a chance that you will see 0 in the paragraph number when a paragraph in the text follows a paragraph "out of the set rules". L.
Hello Gilgamesh1964
it is possible to make it fully automated, as long as you accept (as you said) that there will be paragraphs with the same numbering.
Also, you need to think really carefully about the rules: you can have only one set of rules when setting up the rules of which level follows which. And I am not talking about Heading levels, but levels in the Multilevel list set.
I made a table for illustration, but you need to decide for yourself which paragraph number resets when and which level's number is included where. This is the maddening part ;-).If this doesn't make sense, post a new reply so that we can sort it out.
Lenka
As long as you don't need a single paragraph style to sometimes be level 1 and sometimes be level 2 (for example) in one and the same document, you should be able to set up your numbering with styles.
Or are you saying that is precisely the limitation? You want numbering which isn't at all "dependent" on paragraph styles? That would be tricky in Word.
