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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

Multiple Kinds of Numbering

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In the container formats, many different items can have numbering, and Word tends to treat them as different things. There are three different kinds:

• Fields
• Simple Lists
• Outline Lists

The "kinds" determine the behavior of the three types. It may be worth noting that in Word versions 6 and above, a bulleted list and a numbered list are actually the same thing: only the "number format" is different.

The following pages explain what the three kinds of numbering are, and the variations within each kind.

Field numbering
List numbering
Simple Lists
Outline numbering