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Changing Word numbering

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Many questions arising from our article on Word Autonumbering.  Many of them asked about continuing numbering after a break for non-numbered text.

“There is no way of saying which numbering system should be continued from, and at what depth. “

There is, but it’s not obvious. Right-click at the autonumber and you’ll see some options:

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Choose ‘Set Numbering Value’ and you can set the numbering exactly.

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The ‘Set value to’ will show as many counters as the depth of levels requires.  Here’s an extreme example with all nine available levels …

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