heading numbering

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I want to make my heading 1 start with A-1 (both automatic). Heading 2 will
be C-1.0. etc. How can I do this automatically so the TOC will be accurate.
 
Are you saying that you want all Heading 1 paragraphs to have A- before the
number and all Heading 2s to have C-? You can add this as static text in the
number format, and the TOC should pick it up in the same way that it would
pick up Chapter or any other prefix. It will probably not, however, be
picked up by page numbers even if you use "Include chapter number," and
anything that isn't picked up by the PAGE field won't appear in page numbers
in the TOC.

What exactly are you trying to accomplish? Can you tell us more about the
format of the document?

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wendy said:
I want to make my heading 1 start with A-1 (both automatic). Heading 2 will
be C-1.0. etc. How can I do this automatically so the TOC will be
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accurate.
 
Suzanne S. Barnhill said:
Are you saying that you want all Heading 1 paragraphs to have A- before the
number and all Heading 2s to have C-? You can add this as static text in the
number format, and the TOC should pick it up in the same way that it would
pick up Chapter or any other prefix. It will probably not, however, be
picked up by page numbers even if you use "Include chapter number," and
anything that isn't picked up by the PAGE field won't appear in page numbers
in the TOC.

What exactly are you trying to accomplish? Can you tell us more about the
format of the document?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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accurate.

no sorry, I mis-worded that. The heading 1's should be A-1.0, A-2.0, A-3.0.....
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heading 2's should be A-1.1, A-1.2, A-1.3..... (A-2.1, A-2.2, A-2.3...etc)

thanks
 
Ah, okay, this is easy. See
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numbering/OutlineNumbering.html for the
foolproof way to set up your outline numbering. Then just add A- as plain
text to the number format in each level. If you want a higher level to be
numbered A, B, C, then you should make it Level 1 (it need not be Heading
1--can be any style), and it will then be included in the Level 2 and 3
numbering.

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
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It needs to be the Heading 1 style so the correct page numbering will be in
the TOC (there are 13 sections) - I don't want to have to manually type in
the TOC
 
I got it !!! thanks....

wendy said:
It needs to be the Heading 1 style so the correct page numbering will be in
the TOC (there are 13 sections) - I don't want to have to manually type in
the TOC
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sorry - one further question - on the table of contents, I still have to
manually type the "A" in front of the page number. Is there anyway to
incorporate the "A" into the heading so this isn't necessary ??
 
The only way I know of to do this, as I said, is to include it in the
autonumbering. You could do this by setting up a dummy style with A, B, C
numbering as your Level 1 style and inserting it one time (Hidden) to force
the Level 2 style to include the A. The problem is that your page number
would then have to include both Level 1 and Level 2 numbering, and I don't
know that that's possible. So there may be no good way to do this. But you
might want to try posting a question in the word.numbering NG, where the
real numbering pros hang out.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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Hi Suzanne,
I'm new to this, but couldn't you insert the Styleref field (and select
Heading 1) into the footer near the page number field? I think this would
then display the text of the most recent Heading 1 on each page.

I'm searching for answers to another question regarding numbering when I saw
this. I'll start another thread with my question.
 
As long as it doesn't need to be picked up by the TOC, this will work, but
the TOC will pick up only what is actually produced by the { PAGE } field.

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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