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Auto-numbering in exel (like word)

 
 
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      6th Jun 2006
I need to do autonumbering in exel, in much the same way word will do it
already.
In word, you can specifiy 'outline numbering'
then if you had the lines:
1 Frank
1.1 John
1.2 Sally
and inserted a line above '1.2 Sally' - you'd get
1.1 John
1.2 (blank)
1.3 Sally
I need to do this but in excel to use it for a work breakdown structure (WBS)
which I will then put into MS Project (Yes, I know Project will do WBS
numbering for me but I can't buy 75 copies of MS Project for my task
leaders).
I'm planning on writing a set of VBA macros which will take control when a
row is inserted or deleted, and put in the numbering for me - plus some
increase/descrease code' but perhaps someone has already done this.

This all works in MS Word - in fact, I have it linked so that if they do
something in a word file, it shows up in the exel file but this is too
complicated for general use as I must also do other calculations in other
parts of the new lines.

any thoughts appreciated.
 
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      19th Jul 2006
I've written software to do this (it is basically a Work Breakdown Structure
(WBS) manager) in case anyone is interested. It look quite a bit of VBA code
as it also manages protection of certain columns, verifies the structure,
does a lot of other housekeeping - is it basically a MS Project Light.


"Thrashman" wrote:

> I need to do autonumbering in exel, in much the same way word will do it
> already.
> In word, you can specifiy 'outline numbering'
> then if you had the lines:
> 1 Frank
> 1.1 John
> 1.2 Sally
> and inserted a line above '1.2 Sally' - you'd get
> 1.1 John
> 1.2 (blank)
> 1.3 Sally
> I need to do this but in excel to use it for a work breakdown structure (WBS)
> which I will then put into MS Project (Yes, I know Project will do WBS
> numbering for me but I can't buy 75 copies of MS Project for my task
> leaders).
> I'm planning on writing a set of VBA macros which will take control when a
> row is inserted or deleted, and put in the numbering for me - plus some
> increase/descrease code' but perhaps someone has already done this.
>
> This all works in MS Word - in fact, I have it linked so that if they do
> something in a word file, it shows up in the exel file but this is too
> complicated for general use as I must also do other calculations in other
> parts of the new lines.
>
> any thoughts appreciated.

 
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      19th Jul 2006
Hi this sounds interesting any chance of seeing the code or an example.

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Thrashman wrote:
> I've written software to do this (it is basically a Work Breakdown Structure
> (WBS) manager) in case anyone is interested. It look quite a bit of VBA code
> as it also manages protection of certain columns, verifies the structure,
> does a lot of other housekeeping - is it basically a MS Project Light.
>
>
> "Thrashman" wrote:
>
> > I need to do autonumbering in exel, in much the same way word will do it
> > already.
> > In word, you can specifiy 'outline numbering'
> > then if you had the lines:
> > 1 Frank
> > 1.1 John
> > 1.2 Sally
> > and inserted a line above '1.2 Sally' - you'd get
> > 1.1 John
> > 1.2 (blank)
> > 1.3 Sally
> > I need to do this but in excel to use it for a work breakdown structure (WBS)
> > which I will then put into MS Project (Yes, I know Project will do WBS
> > numbering for me but I can't buy 75 copies of MS Project for my task
> > leaders).
> > I'm planning on writing a set of VBA macros which will take control when a
> > row is inserted or deleted, and put in the numbering for me - plus some
> > increase/descrease code' but perhaps someone has already done this.
> >
> > This all works in MS Word - in fact, I have it linked so that if they do
> > something in a word file, it shows up in the exel file but this is too
> > complicated for general use as I must also do other calculations in other
> > parts of the new lines.
> >
> > any thoughts appreciated.


 
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      21st Jul 2006
Well, it's 800 lines of VBA code - but it does a lot of things unique for my
needs.
It manages protection of the sheet, has a 'user' mode and an 'admin' mode,
it allows an admin to make some lines protected so a user can't change a
baseline WBS but can add more detail lines to already baselined rows.
It also manages durations, start, end dates, skipping holidays and weekends
in the date calculations, and a lot of other things.

If you're just interested in a simple capability - which has just the
autonumbering etc I could strip that out and post it or give it to you.

If you're interested, repost or send me a note - and we can collaborate a
bit via a sharepoint site or something.



"Thrashman" wrote:

> I need to do autonumbering in exel, in much the same way word will do it
> already.
> In word, you can specifiy 'outline numbering'
> then if you had the lines:
> 1 Frank
> 1.1 John
> 1.2 Sally
> and inserted a line above '1.2 Sally' - you'd get
> 1.1 John
> 1.2 (blank)
> 1.3 Sally
> I need to do this but in excel to use it for a work breakdown structure (WBS)
> which I will then put into MS Project (Yes, I know Project will do WBS
> numbering for me but I can't buy 75 copies of MS Project for my task
> leaders).
> I'm planning on writing a set of VBA macros which will take control when a
> row is inserted or deleted, and put in the numbering for me - plus some
> increase/descrease code' but perhaps someone has already done this.
>
> This all works in MS Word - in fact, I have it linked so that if they do
> something in a word file, it shows up in the exel file but this is too
> complicated for general use as I must also do other calculations in other
> parts of the new lines.
>
> any thoughts appreciated.

 
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