Setting up a template

[Guy Worthington]

Guy Worthington wrote:

See the latest numbering discussion I've seen, especially post #4 which
contains Dave Rado's concise instructions for setting up heading numbering.
<URL:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&ic=1&th=bce07d7714769f5c>

I followed the cookbook recipe from post #4 for heading 1 as follows:

1) On the "indents and spacing" tab for paragraph properties, I set
alignment to right.

2) On the "outline numbered" tab for numbering properties I selected
the last option. (Now heading 1 is numbered in sequence
Chapter 1, Chapter 2, ..., etc.)

3) On the customize dialog for outline numbering I set the number
position to "right aligned at 13.4cm." (13.4cm being my outside margin)

With the above constraints, Word using its demented logic, has
added a 13.4 cm "first line" indentation to the paragraph properties
of heading 1. The side effect of the first line indentation is that
as soon as I type a character, the first line is completely filled, and
Word starts on the second line. So now, if I hit a space before
typing my chapter title, I get my two line chapter heading right justified
on the outside margin of the document (as sketched in the ASCII
diagram above).

(Oh by the way Charles, before you get the image that I'm one of the
curmudgeons sitting in the balcony berating all the other muppets,
thankyou for the link to the article -- I am grateful.)

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Follow the instructions at Shauna Kelly's site. If you need more, wade
through John McGhie's article. The article on my site on legal numbering,
while good, is not as good as these two.
--

Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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[Bob S]

---------------------------------------
Chapter 1|
My Chapter Title|
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|
xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxx xxxxx|
xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxx xxxxx|
xxxxx |
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I want 'heading 1' to be a two line heading, with the
first line "Chapter 1" being generated automatically,
and the second line to be the chapter title that
I type in. The title is to be right justified on
the outside margin of the document.

Did you figure this out? I got it by setting Heading 1 style to be
chapter numbers (last box) and "after number" = nothing instead of
space in the Numbering customize dialog, and right aligned in
paragraph format. Then just remember to type Shift+Enter before the
first letter that you type, to get the line break. It is easy to
remember because if you forget it is all on one line...

You could make a formatted AutoText entry with the line feed already
in it if you wanted, but it is easy to just type it in.

Bob S