Word sections and numbering

The following shows an intro with lower case Roman numerals. You can use any other format instead.

  1. Select between the intro and the body of the document and go to Layout > Breaks > Next Page.

    Tip: To see section breaks and other formatting marks, go to Home and select Show/Hide (¶) to turn on the display of formatting marks.

  2. In the header for the body section, deselect Link to Previous. If Link to Previous is dimmed, check to make sure a section break was created.

  3. In the intro section select Page Number and choose a location and style. If your change only affects the first page of your section, make sure Different First Page is not selected.

  4. To choose a format or to control the starting number, select Page Number > Format Page Numbers.

  5. Do either or both of the following:

    • Select Number format to select the format for the numbering, such as a, b, c or i, ii, iii for the intro.

    • Under Page numbering, choose Start at and type a number that you want to start the section with. For example, restart numbering at the beginning of the body section.

  6. Select Close Header and Footer, or double-click anywhere outside the header or footer area to exit.

The following shows an intro with lower case Roman numerals. You can use any other format instead.

  1. Select between the intro and the body of the document and go to Layout > Breaks > Next Page.

  2. In the header for the body section, deselect Link to Previous. If Link to Previous is dimmed, check to make sure a section break was created.

    Note: Headers and footers are linked separately, so if your page number is in the header, turn off linking for headers. If your page number is in the footer, turn off linking for footers.

  3. Go to Header & Footer > Page Number, and then click Page Number.

  4. Choose the position and alignment of page numbers. If you don’t want a page number to appear on the first page, clear Show number on first page.

  5. To choose a format or to control the starting number, go to Header & Footer > Page Number > Format Page Numbers.

  6. To change the numbering style, select a different style in Number format.

  7. To change the starting page number of the newly created section, select Start at, and then enter a number.

  8. Select OK.

  9. Select Close Header and Footer, or double-click outside of the header or footer to exit.

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10 steps to setting up page numbering in Word sections

If you’ve ever been outfoxed by Word’s page numbering options in a multiple-section document, here’s good news: Controlling how the pages in each section are numbered is actually pretty easy. Susan Harkins demystifies this Word feature.


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According to Microsoft, a section is “a portion of a document in which you set certain page formatting options.” It might help to think of sections as rooms in a house. They’re all part of the same dwelling, but each room has its own purpose and décor. This autonomy lends flexibility, but it can lead to questions about numbering pages — where do you start numbering, does each section start over with page 1, and so on.

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Fortunately, adding sections actually makes complex page numbering schemes easier, not more difficult.

1: Determine page numbering needs for each section

Before you can number anything, you have to discern what each section comprises. The results will be specific to each document. For instance, a book can have several elements, or sections: a title page, a table of contents, numerous chapters, and so on. Sections allow you to treat each of these elements as a single unit.

Once you identify the sections, you must decide how you want to number each one: Where is page 1, will each section begin with page 1, and so on.

2: Create the sections

Figure A

  1. Position the insertion point between the two elements. If there’s a page break between them, it’s often easier to insert the section break at the end of the preceding page. Click Show/Hide to display formatting marks, if necessary (in the Paragraph group on the Home tab in Word 2007 and 2010).
  2. From the Insert menu, choose Break and choose Next Page in the Section Break Types section, as shown in Figure B. In Word 2007 and 2010, click the Page Layout tab | Breaks in the Page Setup group | Next Page.
  3. Click OK.

Figure A

You can treat each of these elements as a section.

Figure B

Enter a section break.

3: Check for extra pages

beforeFigure C

Figure C

Print Preview shows a new blank and unnecessary page between the table of contents and the first page of chapter 1.

This is one time when planning comes in handy. If you know you’re going to divide the document into sections, insert section breaks instead of page breaks. On the other hand, it’s easy to delete the extra pages.

4: Add a header or footer — maybe

Most page numbers appear in a document’s header or footer section (although that’s not strictly necessary). To add a header, choose Header And Footer from the View menu. In Word 2007 and 2010, double-click above the top margin or click the Insert tab | Header (in the Header & Footer group) | Blank.

5: Enable page numbering

As mentioned, page numbering doesn’t always begin with the first page. For instance, in the example book document, you might want to avoid page numbering until the first page of chapter 1. In this case, you’d select the first page of chapter 1 — that’s also the first page of section 2. Then, to enable page numbering for chapter 1 and beyond, you’d open the header (or footer, depending on where you want the page number to appear). On the Header And Footer toolbar (that Word launches when you open a header or footer), click Insert Page Number. In Word 2007 and 2010, click the Design context tab | Page Number (in the Header & Footer group) | Top of Page | Plain Number 1. (The last two options are preferential.)

Figure D

Figure D

By default, page number continuous from section to section.

6: Break the connection

As you just learned in the previous step, page numbering isn’t autonomous in sections by default. You must break the connection between the two sections. To break the connection between the first and second sections, click Link To Previous on the Header And Footer toolbar. (If you closed the header in the last step, reopen it and Word will display the Header And Footer toolbar.) In Word 2007 and 2010, click the Design context tab | Link To Previous (in the Navigation group).

The page number is still 3, but don’t worry.

7: Reset page numbering

Breaking the connection isn’t enough; you must also reset the page numbering option, as follows:

  1. On the Header And Footer toolbar, click Format Page Number. In Word 2007 and 2010, click the Design context tab | Page Number (in the Header & Footer group) | Format Page Number.
  2. n the resulting dialog box, select the Start At option in the Page Number section. Enter 1, as shown in Figure E.
  3. Click OK. As you can see in Figure F, the page number is now 1, even though this page is actually the third page in the document.

Figure E

Reset page number for the current section.

Figure F

After resetting the section’s page number, the first page of the section is 1.

8: Disable page numbering for the title page

Chapter 1 begins with the page number 1 — that’s good. But the first two pages of the document, the title page and table of contents page, still display page numbers 1 and 2, respectively. Fortunately, you can easily inhibit this legacy numbering as follows:

  1. Go to the first page and open the header (if necessary).
  2. Highlight the page number.
  3. Press Delete.

Notice that deleting the page number field on page 1 also deletes the page number field on page 2. That’s because these two pages are both part of the same section.

9: Number the appendix

If you check the appendix page (page 4 in the document), you’ll see that it displays the page number 2. Similarly, the last page, the index, displays the number 3. As far as Word is concerned, the appendix and index pages are part of the second section, which begins with chapter 1. Right now, there’s only one section break in the document.

There’s an easy fix for this situation. Simply add a section break after the chapter 1 section. Position the insertion point at the end of the chapter and repeat the steps in #2. Unlike before, you don’t have to break the connection and reset the page number, because you changed those default settings earlier.

10: Number the index

You’ll probably want the index page to have its own page numbering, similar to the chapter and appendix section. The easy answer is to make a section for the index by repeating the process in #9. Position the insertion point at the end of the appendix and insert a section break.

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By default, all pages in a Microsoft Word document are numbered
sequentially. However, there are times when we want to change the numbering sequence
or style assigned to particular sections.

For example, in a book or a manual:

  • Cover page and the page after it have no numbers
  • The Table of Contents uses roman numerals as
    page numbers and is numbered from 1
  • The first page of the first chapter has numbers
    starting from 1
  • The index uses roman numerals as page numbers
    and is numbered from 1

If you want to change the numbering style or format or the
numbering sequence, you have to use sections. Each part of the document that
has a unique numbering style or sequence will be in a section by itself.

You can read more about the overall use of sections at Complex Document Layouts with Sections in Microsoft Word and Using Sections to Change Page Layout in a Word Document.

The Tutorial

Download the sample file Sample_Doc_Changing_Numbering_v1.docx. We will be using this file as the sample in this tutorial.

What We Will Be Doing in This Tutorial

We will create three (3) sections:

  1. The first section will be the Table of Contents that will use roman numerals and will start at 1.
  2. The second section will the main content of the document that will use decimal numbers starting at 1.
  3. The third section will be the

In addition, observe that in any book or manual, the Table of Contents or chapters are always start on the right page or the odd page. When we create sections, we will ensure that our Table of Contents and Content pages start of the right page (odd page) as well.

The First Steps

  1. Open Sample_Doc_Changing_Numbering_v1.docx.
  2. Observe that:
    1. Table of Contents is page 1
    2. Contents start from page 2
    3. Index starts from page 13

Now we want to create 3 sections containing:

  1. The Table of Contents
  2. The Main Content
  3. The Index 

Creating Sections

To designate a part of the document as a section, we need to insert section breaks to mark the start and at the end of the section. 

Note that:

  • the Table of Contents starts on the first page of the document, so we do not have to give a section break to indicate where it starts.
  • the index is at the end of the document, so we do not have to give a section break to indicate where it ends.
  1. First let us separate the Table of Contents into a separate section:
    1. On page 2, click before the U of Using AutoText Effectively.
    2. On the Layout tab, in the Page Setup group, click Breaks, and in the displayed list, click Odd Page. We are using an odd page section break because we want the new section (the contents) to start on an odd page.
  2. Observe that:
    1. document contents start from page 3
    2. Index starts on page 14
  3. To separate the index into a separate section:
    1. On page 14, click before the I of Index.
    2. On the Layout tab, in the Page Setup group, click Breaks, and in the displayed list, click Odd Page. We are using an odd page section break because we want the index to start on an odd page.

After these two section breaks:

  • The Table of Contents in now in section 1
  • The main body of the document is section 2
  • The index is section 3 

Changing the Numbering Sequence

  1. To start the numbering for the Table of Contents from 1 and display page numbers as roman numerals:
    1. Double-click the footer area. The footer now becomes editable.
    2. Click in the footer area of Section 2. This section contains the Table of Contents.
    3. On the Header & Footer tab, in the Header & Footer group, click Page Number, and from the displayed menu, select Format Page Numbers.
    4. In the Page Number Format:
      1. From the Number format list, select i, ii, iii….
      2. Under the Page numbering group, select Start at and type 1.

    5. Click OK. The page number for the table of contents page changes to i.


  2. To start the numbering for the main part of the document from 1:
    1. Ensure that the footer is editable.
    2. Click in the footer area of Section 3. This section contains contents of the document.
    3. On the Header & Footer tab, in the Header & Footer group, click Page Number, and from the displayed menu, select Format Page Numbers.
    4. In the Page Number Format, under the Page numbering group, select Start at and type 1.
    5. Click OK. The page number for the main part of the document changes to 1.
  3. To start the numbering for the index from 1 and use the roman numeral format:
    1. Double-click the footer area. The footer now becomes editable.
    2. Click in the footer area of Section 3. This section contains the Table of Contents.
    3. On the Header & Footer tab, in the Header & Footer group, click Page Number, and from the displayed menu, select Format Page Numbers.
    4. In the Page Number Format:
      1. From the Number format list, select i, ii, iii….
      2. Under the Page numbering group, select Start at and type 1.
    5. Click OK. The page number for the index page changes to i.
  4. Update the Table of Contents. The page numbers are now updated to reflect the new numbering.

Download the formatted document Sample_Doc_Changing_Numbering_v1_Solution with sections and numbering as explained in the tutorial

Введение

Сам по себе факт существование разделов неизвестен большинству пользователей Word.
И это при том, что вновь создаваемый документ уже состоит из раздела.
Кроме того, он занимает высший уровень в иерархии объектной модели, выше него только сам документ.

Важность данного объекта сложно переоценить, так как ряд крайне востребованных свойств описываются именно для него, а не для документа, как полагают почти все.


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На следующем рисунке показано внешнее отображение всех видов разрывов при включенном отображении непечатаемых знаков.

Колонки

Разбиение текста на колонки производится для текущего раздела.
Доступ к настройкам осуществляется через вкладку Макет ⇒ модуль Параметры страницы ⇒ кнопка Колонки.


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Колонтитулы

Различают верхний (header) и нижний (footer) колонтитулы, располагающиеся у соответствующих краев листа.
Кроме того, при задании зеркальных страниц, мы получим левую и правую пару.
Также можно настроить индивидуальные колонтитулы для первой страницы раздела.
Таким образом, каждый раздел может иметь от двух до шести колонтитулов, возможно, одинаковых.

Работа с колонтитулами в основном осуществляется через вкладку Ленты «Конструктор», возникающую при входе в режим редактирования любого колонтитула.

Создание колонтитулов (переход в режим их редактирования) может быть произведено несколькими способами.


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Форматирование колонтитулов всегда производится с помощью табуляции.
Использование для этого таблицы иногда бывает оправдано, но должно быть однозначно обосновано, так как порождает множество дополнительных факторов,
в том числе тех, которые невозможно контролировать в автоматическом режиме.
Например, ширина колонок.

Автоматический колонтитул

При создании достаточно сложных колонтитулов существует возможность формировать их на основе уже имеющейся информации, то есть избавиться от рутинного контроля содержания.

Позволю себе сразу огорчить читателя тем, что за автоматизацию в данном случае нужно расплачиваться квалификацией пользователя и соблюдением порядка, не всегда подконтрольного зрению.
Естественно, речь пойдет не о номере и количестве страниц.

Для примера я сразу использую наиболее сложный вариант, применяемый в журналах, когда колонтитулы внутри одной статьи чередуются, например,
на левой приводятся авторы, а на правой — название статьи.


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Возможный алгоритм примитивной работы.

Примитивность в этом случае подразумевает отсутствие перечисленных выше потенциальных трудностей.


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Другой алгоритм.


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Очевидным недостатком такого способа будет принципиальная невозможность форматирования отдельных символов, а в текстах высокой категории сложности это относится к почти обязательным вариантам.

Колонцифра (номер страницы)

В издательском деле для обозначения номера страницы используется термин колонцифра, заодно подчеркивающий норму размещения этого элемента в колонтитуле.

Расположение колонцифры определяется правилами или задачей, которая ложится на нее в конкретном издании.

Обобщенная оценка. Всего мы можем выделить 6 точек, расположенных по 3 в верхнем и нижнем колонтитулах.


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Перечисленное не имеет почти никакого отношения к реальным критериям выбора, так как доминируют тезисы «мы так привыкли» и «нам так красиво».

Логические предпосылки для использования нумерации страниц достаточно просты и определяются её важностью.


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Одной из актуальных тем является задание стартовой страницы.
Наиболее важны две ситуации:

  1. исключение из нумерации первой (титульной) страницы;
  2. разбиение большого документа на множество файлов с продолжающейся нумерацией (книга).

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Как обычно, названная проблема решается посредством VBA.

Для случая, когда вы хотите, чтобы в документе нумерация начиналась с N-ой страницы есть несколько решений с единой основой.


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Для форматирования колонцифры используется встроенный стиль «Номер страницы»!

Алгоритмы простых типовых действий

Поворот отдельной страницы

Такая необходимость всегда появится, если иллюстрации размещаются по тексту, а таблица или рисунок не помещаются в ширину полосы набора.

Примитивизированный алгоритм действий:


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Разбиение на колонки

Стандартным вариантом почти для всех случаев является переменное количество колонок в документе.
То есть, например, части сделаны на всю полосу набора (1 колонка), другие — иначе (2 колонки…).
Это, в том числе, относится ко всем научным журналам, издаваемым в большом формате (близком к A4).

Алгоритм действий, применимый по сути к любым ситуациям:


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Типовые ошибки при разбиении на колонки


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Все перечисленные ошибки встречаются в практической работе крайне часто!

Изменение типа разрыва раздела

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Microsoft,
сделать это совсем не так просто.
Иначе говоря, данная технология работала раньше, но не работает теперь.


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Multilevel numbering in Word is the #1 headache for many people working with large documents. 

Believe it or not, it’s not complicated. It just takes somebody to lead the way and point out the pitfalls you need to avoid.

Today that pleasure falls to me!

Before I start, grab your free multilevel numbering troubleshooting guide that shows you the steps to get multilevel numbering working properly first time, every time, together with answers to over 20 FAQs and plenty of real client examples constructed step by step to help you fix what isn’t working with your numbering.

Multilevel Numbering in Word - The Missing Guide

1. What Multi-level Numbering Looks Like

Often used in the legal profession or in large corporate documents, multilevel numbering creates a logical hierarchy and easy navigation within the document. The headings can also be summarised later on in a table of contents. Here is a simple example:

Multilevel numbering in Word 01

2. How to Set Up Multilevel Numbering

Here is the correct process:

1.  Select the text that you want to number (this can be a section of text or the whole document).

Multilevel numbering - where to start

2.  Select the Home tab.

3.  Click the multilevel numbering icon in the Paragraph group.

Multilevel numbering icon

4.  You can either select an existing layout from the list to use as a starting point, or you can create a new numbering system from scratch. As you hover over each thumbnail image, Word provides a larger image of the numbering system.

5.  Choose Define New Multilevel List to display the control dialog.

Define new multilevel list

The dialog box can be broken down as follows:

Step #1 Click level to modify

In the top left is a list of levels. As you select each level, the settings in the rest of the dialog box changes. 

Level 1 is the highest level, i.e. the main headings such as chapter or section titles. 

Level 2 is subordinate to level 1.

Level 3 is subordinate to level 2.

Click Level to Modify

Step #2 Enter formatting for number

This is where the level number is constructed. If you include a previous level number, it will be displayed with a grey background, as will the number for the current level.

Type anything you wish to put in between the numbers such as dots, dashes, brackets etc.

Clear any text in the ‘Enter formatting for this number’ box.

Step #3 Include level number from

When creating a subordinate level (or child level), you can first specify the level number of the parent.

For example, for section 3.2

  • 3’ is the parent level (level 1) and
  • 2’ is the child level (level 2)

Multilevel numbering in Word 05

Step #4 Number style for this level

Each level can have its own number style. It may be a standalone style, e.g. 1, 2, 3 or a, b, c or continue on from a higher level, e.g. 1.1.1 or 1.a.i.

  • When creating 1.1 numbering, this option is 1, 2, 3.
  • When creating 1.a numbering, this option is a, b, c

Multilevel numbering in Word 06

Step #5 Font

Set the font formatting for the selected level, if you want.

Enter formatting for number

Step #6 Position

What position from the left margin do you want items for each level of numbering. For example, level 1 items may be 0cm from the left margin, level 2, 1cm from the left margin and level 3, 2cm from the left margin.

Here’s what they mean: 

  • The Aligned At determines how far from the left margin the number appears.
  • The Text indent at figure determines how far from the left margin the text following the number is.

Multilevel numbering in Word 08

6.  Click OK to save all the settings and close the dialog box.

The text you selected in step 1 now looks like this.

Multilevel numbering - initial numbering

The next part is where the magic happens …

3. How to Apply Multilevel Numbering

Once you have created your numbering system:

1.  Position the cursor at the beginning of a line.

Multilevel numbering - place the cursor at the start of the line

2.  Press the TAB key to move the text down a level (demote).

Multilevel numbering - press TAB to demote and SHIFT TAB to promote

3.  Press the SHIFT and TAB keys together to move the text up a level (promote).

Multilevel numbering - press SHIFT TAB to promote

If you prefer, you can also click the indent icon to demote and the outdent icon to promote between levels.

Multilevel numbering - you can use the indent and outdent icons to demote and promote between numbering levels

4. How to Change Multilevel Settings

Once you have created your numbering system:

1.  Reselect all text that is using the multilevel numbering.

2.  Click the multilevel numbering icon and select Define New Multilevel List (yes, you choose this option even if you are modifying an existing multilevel list).

Redefine multilevel list

The original settings that you defined are redisplayed.

3.  In the top-left box select the level that you wish to change, then change your settings.

4.  Repeat for the other settings.

5.  Click OK to save the settings. Your numbered list should now reflect your new settings.

5. Linking Multilevel Numbering to Styles

Each level of a multilevel numbering system can be linked to a style. This means that as you apply styles throughout the document, the numbering is applied appropriately and automatically. You can either use the built-in Heading 1, Heading 2, Heading 3 styles or use your own custom styles.

1.  In the Numbering dialog box, click the MORE button in the bottom-left corner to expand the dialog box.

2.  Select level to modify in the top-left box.

3.  Open the Link level to style drop-down list and choose the style you wish to connect to the numbering level.

Link level to style

4.  Click OK.

5.  In the document, apply the Heading 1, Heading 2, Heading 3 styles where needed.

It’s a good idea to create a body text style and apply that where appropriate, so that the body text does not inadvertently get caught up in the multi-level numbering.

6.  Select the whole document (or the portion of the document where you want to apply your numbered sections).

7.  Click the  icon in the Paragraph group (Home tab).

8.  Select your custom numbering style from the gallery. The thumbnail image should show the linked styles.

Multilevel numbering in Word 12

6. How to Use Styles to Set Number Levels

1.  Select all the text that you wish to apply the same number level to. Alternatively, if you wish to go line by line, you can place the cursor anywhere in a line of text.

Multilevel numbering - place the cursor at the start of the line

2.  In the Styles gallery, click the style that corresponds to the number level you wish to apply. For example, to apply the top level numbering click Heading 1 and for the third level numbering click Heading 3 (assuming those are the styles you assigned).

The numbering and all the numbering settings will be applied to the selected text or the paragraph in which the cursor was positioned.

Multilevel number styles

And that, my friend, is how you do multilevel numbering in Word with no loose ends.

How to set up a dual-multilevel numbering system in Word

7. Two resources to help you

1. Grab your free multilevel numbering troubleshooting guide.

Multilevel Numbering Troubleshooting Guide

2. Watch over my shoulder as I set up multilevel numbering from scratch.

Click to watch video

8. What next?

I hope you found plenty of value in this post. I’d love to hear your biggest takeaway in the comments below together with any questions you may have.

Have a fantastic day.

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Jason loves to simplify the hard stuff, cut the fluff and share what actually works. Things that make a difference. Things that slash hours from your daily work tasks. He runs a software training business in Queensland, Australia, lives on the Gold Coast with his wife and 4 kids and often talks about himself in the third person!

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