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  General

  • Word's numbering explained
  • Remove manually typed numbering
  • Safely update a document's styles from its template

  Page Numbering

  • “Page X of Y” displays or prints as “Page 1 of 1,” “Page 2 of 2” (or “Page 2 of 1”) and so on
  • How to control the page numbering in a Word document
  • Why do all the page numbers in my Word 2002 document display as 0?
  • Front matter numbered separately
  • Include the chapter number with the page number

  List Numbering

  • Word's numbering explained
  • Methods for restarting list numbering
  • VBA: Return the number, or list level, or outline level of a paragraph.

  Other

  • Whenever I update my Table of Contents it acquires unwanted tabs
  • Customizing your table of contents with switches
  • Automatic "intentionally blank" page
  • How can I use an AutoNum field but suppress the period after the number or use a different separator character?
  • Create a numbered list using SEQuence fields
  • How to insert captions that include chapter numbers
  • Creating sequentially numbered documents (such as invoices)
  • Sequentially numbering multiple copies of single document using a macro
  • Sequentially numbering multiple copies of single document using a mailmerge

Template conflicts

« Table of contents

« Applying numbering

There are two common causes of template conflicts.

If individual users have different definitions for the various List Templates involved, the numbering breaks each time a different user opens the document. I recommend that you orphan Normal style so that it is not used in the document, and ensure that none of the styles that contain numbering in the document are based upon it. This lessens the number of times you will suffer the problem.

The second conflict occurs if any document with numbering is attached to its template with "Automatically update styles on open" set to ON. Each time you open the document, Word resets the style. This either conflicts with or resets the List Template, and breaks the numbering.