Not because it’s bad (it’s not) but because it seems to satisfy no-one. There few things in Office more frustrating than the multi-level numbering feature. As the name suggests ‘Multi-level lists’ lets you define staggered levels in your document with numbering styles for each level. You’ve probably used the bullets or numbering features already they are on the buttons to the left of the multi-level one. The beauty of autonumbering is that you can set it up and let Word do all the drudge work. There’s all manner of options, just two of them are shown above. Just with the one of the preset options you can autonumber a document like this: It’s almost the same in Word 2016 for Mac (only the ‘Change List Level’ is missing). The same button with the same preset options are in Word 2010, Word 2013 and Word 2016 for Windows. The above is from the Home tab of the Word 2007 ribbon. I found staff going through a long document, laboriously numbering headings and sub-headings by hand! They been doing this for years and weren’t happy when shown this button on the ribbon, it does the job in seconds instead of an hour or more! Word has an amazing range of options for automatically numbering your document heading and, if necessary, paragraphs.Įven more amazing is my visit to an office last week. Thanks for joining us! You'll get a welcome message in a few moments.
