problem with heading style 1

[keithinoz]

I have a problem with my heading styles which I imported from Word 2003. Attached are the style and the "view" of the style. Headings 8 and 9 have lost their numbering and the space between the last number and the heading title in headings 6 and 7 is wrong.

I could fix this in Word 2003 but not in 2010. Help

 

[xlhelp]

On the Home tab, under Styles drop down; can you not point to the style, right click and modify?

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[keithinoz]

Problem is that the numbering option no longer appears to include multilists. So i cant get the last two headings to show something like 1.1.1.1.1.1 etc

 

[xlhelp]

Flash of light didn't happen until today.

I think you are seriuosly confusing Headings and Bullets. Headings are just that - Headings. You should be able to type anything you like.

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[keithinoz]

I understand the difference. By assigning heading 1 etc to a text it then appears in a certain order and style in the text and the table of contents etc. What I want is for my text to appear as the shown in the original attachment. The Office default produces headings in various fonts and sizes. I can number headings using the default template but subheadings don't pick up the hierarchy of heading numbers.
What I want to do is number each heading so that the if heading 1 is numbered 1 then the first subheading (heading 2 style) will have the number 1.1 before the text. The first heading 3 style text will have the number 1.1.1. As the template sits at present this now occurs down to level 6 (from memory) but not the next two levels 7 and 8. Hence my question.

 

[TonyJollans]

In Word 2010 > Home tab > Paragraph group ...

... there is a splitbutton icon that looks like an indented list. Click on the dropdown arrow and then select "Define New Multilevel list" and you should get a familiar dialog.


Enjoy,
Tony

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[keithinoz]

I have no problems with multilists -either supplied or new.
If I select one of the multilists via the Home tab I can modify any of the levels to the numbering system I require.If I select "define new list style" the default style name is "Style 1". If I go down to the format button and select "numbering" I am presented with a multilevel list which is terrific.
Now I come to my problem.
If I select Heading 1 as my style and select modify then go to the format>numbering I am not offered a multilist but only a simple list. What I had done in my Word 2003 template where you could assign a multilist was to use the same multilist for all headings which meant I got my hierarchy of numbering for all subheadings.

 

[TonyJollans]

Heading 1 is a (built-in) Paragraph Style, not a List Style, and the dialogs you are offered are not helpful in this regard. You can define a new multilevel list and link the Heading styles to each level but that's about it.

I confess to not being very familiar with the new dialogs as I always do this kind of thing in VBA - it isn't necessarily easy, but it is repeatable.

Enjoy,
Tony

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[keithinoz]

Thanks for your help. The problem seems to be that in Word 2003 I could modify a paragraph style with a multilist but in Word 2007/2010 that option has gone. What I have resorted to doing is using my 2003 template and numbering the lowest levels by hand since there are only a few of them.

 

[TonyJollans]

Yes. A lot of changes were introduced in Word 2007. You can still do a lot in VBA but the UI does not support what it considers legacy features.


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Tony

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