Changing Word numbering

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:

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

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 …