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How to automatically change a number format of a new document inserted into the existing document?
Let's say both document 1 & 2 has a list of steps numbered in the 1.1, 1.2, 1.3... format each.
Now I want to merge document 2 in doc 1 such that the numbering format of doc 2 automatically changes to 2.1, 2.2, 2.3....
The merged doc should look something like:
DOC1
1.1
1.2
1.3
...
DOC2
2.1
2.2
2.3
....
(and if I want to merge more docs)
(Optional) DOC3
3.1
3.2
3.3
etc.
Is there a way to automatically change the numbering of the inserted docs from the 1. to the 2. format? A Microsoft agent mentioned that I may need to automate this using VBAcode, but I have never used it before. Please guide me with this.
The safest way to do this is to set up numbering with styles. If both documents have the same styles and the same style definitions, numbering will be correct when you copy numbered items between docs.
See https://shaunakelly.com/word/numbering/numbering20072010.html.
