Now, any time I started a new numbered paragraph, all I needed to do was click on Heading 1 and I had my next paragraph number. I clicked OK again and went back to my document. Once I clicked OK, I was back at the Modify Style dialog box, where I adjusted the font and size and turned off bold. That was what was going to get me a centered Arabic numeral in the middle of the line floating above the paragraph. Obviously, not everybodyвЂ™s going to want to use the same settings I did above, but the main thing I want you to notice is that I set the paragraph justification to вЂњCenteredвЂќ. Once I did that and clicked OK, I went back to the Modify Style dialog box and set about revising the Paragraph settings: I picked the style indicated above namely, the one with the Arabic numeral with a period after it. However, desperate as I was to find a solution to my problem, I decided to take a stab at it. In my experience, itвЂ™s easy to get these things all screwed up. IвЂ™ve had my share of run-ins with Bullets & Numbering. It was at this point, frankly, that I felt a little twinge of fear. So I right-clicked on the Heading 1, clicked Modify, and started looking for Numbering.ДЄnd here came the dreaded Bullets & Numbering dialog box: So I went nosing around in Styles, looking to modify my Heading 1 so that it had an automatically incrementing Arabic numeral and a period, like so: I remembered one of the paralegals I work with telling me that it was possible to embed numbers in Styles.

This post won BlawgWorldвЂ™s Pick of the Week Award 3/10/14! While I was drafting the document, I just knew the attorney I was working for would be moving paragraphs all over the place, and I didnвЂ™t want to stop to renumber them when he did. The document I was working on (a will) had the paragraph number floating centered above the paragraph. But not the normal kind where you have the paragraph number indented about half an inch on the same line with the start of the paragraph. (See my last post, for example.) ItвЂ™s that kind of annoyance that says, вЂњThereвЂ™s got to be a better way to do this.вЂќ For some reason or another, this time it was paragraph numbering.

I seem to make my best discoveries about Microsoft Office when IвЂ™m annoyed.

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