Free 200-page Advanced Microsoft Word Tutorial for Theses, Reports and Publications
I am a professor at Ghent University in Belgium and I have written a free tutorial (200+ pages) on advanced Microsoft Word. The tutorial is useful for everybody who is writing larger documents, such as technical reports, MSc or PhD theses, publications, law documents, etc. Topics include: Paragraph styles Field codes (SEQ, STYLEREF, REF) Bookmarks and cross-references Equation numbering Multi-level lists Headers and footers Sections VBA macros Reference management Word XML structure PDF/A export The document is freely available and feedback is welcome. Here is the download link: https://composites.ugent.be/downloads.html Best regards, Wim VAN PAEPEGEM
Blacked out Style elements
I'm having an issue with numbering.xml. For some reason, Word only shows black boxes in the "Styles" menu section, if numbering.xml does not contain the following element: <w:num w:numId="1"> <w:abstractNumId w:val="0"/> </w:num> Previously it worked fine without this element, but now it only shows black boxes if I don't put this element into the xml. I've checked the document with OpenXml_SDK Validator, and it does not complain about this missing element and says the document is valid. Is it really a mandatory xml tag or should I report it as a new bug?
