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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

Numbering in action

« Table of contents

Let's take a simple technical manual: It has a TOC, Index, Five Chapters and numbered headings. That's one outline numbered list so far. 

In the body, there are some footnotes: a numbered list. There are some numbered steps, also a numbered list. It also has two multi-level numbered lists, which in this case will be two separate outline lists.

In the footer there is a Page X of Y page number, and in the body, some figure captions. These are two field-based lists: one is automatic (using LISTNUM fields), the captions are manual (using SEQ fields).

This is a simple example, so let's stop there. The following pages will go through the various kinds and types of numbering in the document and explain some of the pitfalls.

Page numbering
Tables of contents
Index
Chapter numbering
Heading numbering
Simple Lists
Outline Lists
Footnotes
Field numbers
Professional issues