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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.
Thank you for the clarification.
Just to make sure I understand correctly.
- I would need multiple Body Text Styles, one based on Heading 2, one on Heading 3, etc.
- I can set the following paragraph styles on the various heading levels; so that upon hitting enter on a heading the correct body text level number is used.
- But if I edit the level of an existing heading (i.e. change a Heading 2 to a Heading 3), the existing follow on paragraphs do not automatically change and I would need to manually change their styles to the correct level.
Do I have this right?
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.
- Thank you for all of your assistance.
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.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.
