This time the ones that deal with numbering. There are lot of them, and and we are going to meet some. I can’t use Numbering feature here because the text would look like this:įortunately there are Fields to ease our tasks, to automate and enhance documents.

(Believe it or not, I remember typing on a typewriter and making a mistake, adding and throwing pages away, making corrections and typing into the night…) You would have to manually correct page numbers every time you add or delete a page. Imagine what would you have to do if Word was lacking its page numbering feature? I don’t want even to think about it. And I would have to do that each and every time I add or delete an article. But what would happen if I had a hundred (200) articles and wanted to delete Article 9? I would have to correct all remaining values to correct sequence number: I would have to make 91 corrections. Sure, I can copy/paste the text “ Article 4” and change the value manually. I also want Word to number paragraphs automatically when I copy/paste the text “ Article 4” by increasing number 4 by 1 ( one). Here is the document and I want each article to have its own number, starting from number four (4). There are not many of them and knowing fields better will help you creating better documents and save your time. To start numbering from a given paragraph number.įirst, let me explain a little more about Fields and associated options. She was writing a rather long document and wanted to do (or have) few things in her document:Ģ. The other day a colleague of mine had a question about numbering.

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