Hi Venitfacts Your question is actually an end-user question and the better place to ask it would be a Word forum on 'Answers': You'll find a lot of information on numbering, and how to 'do it right' on this site: In a nutshell, you have two basic approaches: 1. Create a new outline numbering style in each document. Link each level to a different set of paragraph styles. The style names should be unique in the two documents. When Word imports the one document into the other, since the styles aren't present in the target document, it will import them with their formatting. (Otherwise, the style in the target document will override any style coming in from another document.) 2.
You now have a numbered list, but no table or list items-just numbers. The results is a numbered list and as such, has the same pros and cons. Aug 30, 2016 - Set up two paragraph styles: one for the numbered lists and one to reset the. Level: 1 • Remove the contents of the Number text field • Mode: Start at 1. This works because both paragraph styles are part of same named list.
Create a single outline numbering style in both documents. Set the first level to have no numbering; the numbering starts at the second level. Make sure the second level is set to restart numbering after the first level. Assign the numbering levels to paragraph styles. Use the paragraph style linked to the first level to format the paragraph immediately preceding the first paragraph that should have a number. Apply the style for the second level to the first numbered paragraph. What you're seeing is basically 'by design', even though it's extremely annoying. There's no way to 'toggle' the behavior - it can only be controlled fully by using numbering and paragraph styles.
Cindy Meister, VSTO/Word MVP. Hi Ventifacts, Thanks for posting in the MSDN Forum. Would you please clarify some questions: 1.
What’s mean of the “ merge”? I think there are two means about it: a. You want to append the document 2 at the end of document 1. You want to compare the two documents and write any differences you find as 'track changes' so that the user can compare the differences.
Which mean you performed? Is there something between two numbered lists?
Which manner you want to resolve you issue? Do you want to resolve it by setting some configure value in the word or develop an application-level add-in to handle it? If I have misunderstood anything, please feel free to let me know.
Have a great day, Tom Xu Tom Xu MSFT MSDN Community Support Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help and unmark them if they provide no help. Hi Venitfacts Your question is actually an end-user question and the better place to ask it would be a Word forum on 'Answers': You'll find a lot of information on numbering, and how to 'do it right' on this site: In a nutshell, you have two basic approaches: 1. Create a new outline numbering style in each document.
Link each level to a different set of paragraph styles. The style names should be unique in the two documents. When Word imports the one document into the other, since the styles aren't present in the target document, it will import them with their formatting. (Otherwise, the style in the target document will override any style coming in from another document.) 2. Create a single outline numbering style in both documents. Set the first level to have no numbering; the numbering starts at the second level.
Make sure the second level is set to restart numbering after the first level. Assign the numbering levels to paragraph styles. Use the paragraph style linked to the first level to format the paragraph immediately preceding the first paragraph that should have a number. Apply the style for the second level to the first numbered paragraph. What you're seeing is basically 'by design', even though it's extremely annoying. There's no way to 'toggle' the behavior - it can only be controlled fully by using numbering and paragraph styles.
Cindy Meister, VSTO/Word MVP.
I am trying to modify a numbered list style. In the Word document itself, I apply the settings that I wish to use for the style, then I apply those settings by 'updating the normal to match selection'. Everything is perfect until I try to restart numbering under the second section. Once I select 'Restart Numbering' all my custom formating settings are kicked out the door and the old formatting settings are reapplied, but the numbering does restart. How can I modify a numbered list style, restart from 1, and keep my custom formatting?
Here's an example of what I want accomplished: First Section Heading Text 1. Text Second Section Heading Text 1. Text BUT this is what is happening: First Section Heading Text (this is how I want all my lists to look) 1. Text Second Section Heading Text (this is how it looks when I restart from 1) 1.
Make sure to properly define the indentation for your list, via the Adjust List Indents command; that way, indentation won't change if you choose to restart numbering. (You'll find the Adjust List Indents command if you right-click a numbered paragraph.) If you want to avoid manual restarts of numbering, note that you can make use of an outline (multilevel) list to force higher levels restart lower level numbers.
Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP Volunteer Moderator (MVP program information: https://mvp.microsoft.com/).