Expert: Suzanne S. Barnhill - 8/12/2008

Question
I am starting a large report and want a detailed table of contents.  I understand that Word 2007 does this real easily, if it's set up.  I understand I need to use headings, applied to each section I want in the TOC.  However, I have not figured out how to get the outline numbering to work inside the headings.  I used an internet help for Word 2003 and applied it to 2007 but the numbering would not start over in the next section.

Any ideas on how to make it work?  I got so far as to get about everything I wanted except the blasted numbers would not restart counting.  In the outline section it has a "start over" section to check.  I couldn't find it in the (right click) Headings (select) Modify section.  It continued counting very well but that is not what I need.  In other words, it's like this

I.
 A.
 B.
II.
 C.
 D.  

I just want it to go like this
I,
 A,
 B,
II,
 A,
 B, etc .

Any help? I hope this is not too much to ask.

Answer
You need to set up outline numbering as described at http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numbering/OutlineNumbering.html Although the process is a little different in Word 2007, the principles are the same. If your headings are correctly numbered, the TOC will be correct as well.

When/if you get into trouble with the paragraph numbering, post a question in the microsoft.public.word.numbering newsgroup (link below) at msnews.microsoft.com. The latter is a public news server hosted by Microsoft for peer-to-peer support of all its hardware and software products. There are several dozen NGs devoted to Word alone; all are read by many knowledgeable users, and most questions are answered (usually correctly) within a few hours or even minutes (though occasionally it takes days).

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