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Jazza43
Jul 30, 2021Copper Contributor
Removing paragraph numbers and titles throughout from document
I have a very large transribed Word document of around 900 pages in length. The transciber has added hundreds of paragraph numbers and titles to every paragraph throughout the document. I have includ...
Stefan_Blom
Jul 30, 2021MVP
If numbering has been done with styles, for example heading styles, you can search for each of the styles involved and replace with nothing.
In the Find & Replace dialog box (Ctrl+H), leave the "Replace with" field completely blank. Click in the "Find what" box and specify a numbered heading style via Format > Style. Click Replace All. All paragraphs formatted in the specified style will be deleted.
Repeat the procedure for other text paragraphs, formatted in some other heading style, that you want to delete.