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Is there an easier way to use multiple,numbered Headings?
This is not at all intuitive. Not at all easy to set up correctly.
I use Numbered Heading a lot. Before the fiasco of Word2007, I could set up my Heading 1, Heading 2, etc, numbered heading. I could do this within the Modify Style dialog box for my Headings. I only needed to define the numbering system once, and I could easily add new Headings, confident that they would behave as I set them up to behave. Now... with the fiasco that is Word2007 I have to type out the text of my heading, affix the Heading level Style I will eventually want my document to show, Go to the Multi-Level lists and select the outlining I want. Then I must carefully let the cursor hover in the Heading Style I'm formatting, ensuring I don't accidently do something that Word assumes I want to do, and Right-Click to make the Heading Style take on the characteristics of the selected text. That's just for Level 1. Then for all subsequent subordinate Headings I have to do all that PLUS: After clicking on the Multi-Level list Button, I MUST select the Current List (which is NOT the same as selecting the SAME List as I did for Level 1) Then I Must Click on the Multi-Level List Button again, and down at the bottom of the dialog box, I must select Change List Level and hope that I choose the Level corresponding to the Heading level I'm trying to modify. Then, I must go throught the obligatory machinations to update the Style to the selection. This is insanely more complicated that it has been in the past. Is there an easier, more intuitive way to format multi-level numbered Headings in my documents? What am I missing? What are the benefits of having the multi-level Lists (i.e. multi-level Numbered Headings) so challenging to create and maintain? What functionality is improved by doing it using the Ribbon Method in the Way of Word 2007? -- Jim K |
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Is there an easier way to use multiple,numbered Headings?
The often recommended ways to set up numbered headings in W2003 and W2007
are similar. In W2003 you (1) modify the paragraph style for your highest heading level, (2) choose a numbering scheme that is close to what you want, (3) click customize (if you don't need to customize it--that is if the scheme is fine as is--you're done), and then (4) make your changes for all numbering levels and style assignments in that one dialog. In W2007 you (1) place the cursor in the first highest heading level in your document, (2) choose a numbering scheme that is close to what you want, (3) click define new multilevel list (if the scheme is fine as is, you're done), and then (4) make your changes for all numbering levels and style assignments in that one dialog. In both versions, if using heading other than Word's built-in Headings 1 to 9, you must define the heading styles before you set up the numbering scheme. Once you select customize list in W2003 and Define new list in W2007, the dialog boxes are nearly the same. See http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numb...Numbering.html PamC Jim K wrote: This is not at all intuitive. Not at all easy to set up correctly. I use Numbered Heading a lot. Before the fiasco of Word2007, I could set up my Heading 1, Heading 2, etc, numbered heading. I could do this within the Modify Style dialog box for my Headings. I only needed to define the numbering system once, and I could easily add new Headings, confident that they would behave as I set them up to behave. Now... with the fiasco that is Word2007 I have to type out the text of my heading, affix the Heading level Style I will eventually want my document to show, Go to the Multi-Level lists and select the outlining I want. Then I must carefully let the cursor hover in the Heading Style I'm formatting, ensuring I don't accidently do something that Word assumes I want to do, and Right-Click to make the Heading Style take on the characteristics of the selected text. That's just for Level 1. Then for all subsequent subordinate Headings I have to do all that PLUS: After clicking on the Multi-Level list Button, I MUST select the Current List (which is NOT the same as selecting the SAME List as I did for Level 1) Then I Must Click on the Multi-Level List Button again, and down at the bottom of the dialog box, I must select Change List Level and hope that I choose the Level corresponding to the Heading level I'm trying to modify. Then, I must go throught the obligatory machinations to update the Style to the selection. This is insanely more complicated that it has been in the past. Is there an easier, more intuitive way to format multi-level numbered Headings in my documents? What am I missing? What are the benefits of having the multi-level Lists (i.e. multi-level Numbered Headings) so challenging to create and maintain? What functionality is improved by doing it using the Ribbon Method in the Way of Word 2007? -- Message posted via OfficeKB.com http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forums.a...ayout/200903/1 |
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Is there an easier way to use multiple,numbered Headings?
I missed one very important paret os step 1 for W2007. I should have written
place the cursor in the first highest heading level in your document and CLICK THE MULTILEVEL LIST ICON, HTH, Pam PamC wrote: The often recommended ways to set up numbered headings in W2003 and W2007 are similar. In W2003 you (1) modify the paragraph style for your highest heading level, (2) choose a numbering scheme that is close to what you want, (3) click customize (if you don't need to customize it--that is if the scheme is fine as is--you're done), and then (4) make your changes for all numbering levels and style assignments in that one dialog. In W2007 you (1) place the cursor in the first highest heading level in your document, (2) choose a numbering scheme that is close to what you want, (3) click define new multilevel list (if the scheme is fine as is, you're done), and then (4) make your changes for all numbering levels and style assignments in that one dialog. In both versions, if using heading other than Word's built-in Headings 1 to 9, you must define the heading styles before you set up the numbering scheme. Once you select customize list in W2003 and Define new list in W2007, the dialog boxes are nearly the same. See http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numb...Numbering.html PamC This is not at all intuitive. Not at all easy to set up correctly. I use Numbered Heading a lot. [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] What functionality is improved by doing it using the Ribbon Method in the Way of Word 2007? -- Message posted via OfficeKB.com http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forums.a...ayout/200903/1 |
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Is there an easier way to use multiple,numbered Headings?
But WHY?
Why does the process have to be so much more difficult in Word 2007? Hierarchical numbered headings may Look like a multi-level list to Word, but to a user they are not. From what I can discern, MS has decided that since under the hood Word treats numbered paragraph headings as a "multi-level list" then users should be fully exposed to how Word works rather than what works for users. Again. The new "process" in Word 2007 is not at all intuitive. Word 2007 makes creating documents using hierarchical numbered paragraph headings much more difficult. When does the next Office release come out??? -- Jim K "PamC via OfficeKB.com" wrote: I missed one very important paret os step 1 for W2007. I should have written place the cursor in the first highest heading level in your document and CLICK THE MULTILEVEL LIST ICON, HTH, Pam PamC wrote: The often recommended ways to set up numbered headings in W2003 and W2007 are similar. In W2003 you (1) modify the paragraph style for your highest heading level, (2) choose a numbering scheme that is close to what you want, (3) click customize (if you don't need to customize it--that is if the scheme is fine as is--you're done), and then (4) make your changes for all numbering levels and style assignments in that one dialog. In W2007 you (1) place the cursor in the first highest heading level in your document, (2) choose a numbering scheme that is close to what you want, (3) click define new multilevel list (if the scheme is fine as is, you're done), and then (4) make your changes for all numbering levels and style assignments in that one dialog. In both versions, if using heading other than Word's built-in Headings 1 to 9, you must define the heading styles before you set up the numbering scheme. Once you select customize list in W2003 and Define new list in W2007, the dialog boxes are nearly the same. See http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numb...Numbering.html PamC This is not at all intuitive. Not at all easy to set up correctly. I use Numbered Heading a lot. [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] What functionality is improved by doing it using the Ribbon Method in the Way of Word 2007? -- Message posted via OfficeKB.com http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forums.a...ayout/200903/1 |
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Is there an easier way to use multiple,numbered Headings?
How would you describe "hierarchical numbered headings" other than as a
multilevel list? This is the same thing for which you used the "Outline Numbered" tab in earlier versions. If they are not hierarchical, then I could see your objection. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Jim K" wrote in message ... But WHY? Why does the process have to be so much more difficult in Word 2007? Hierarchical numbered headings may Look like a multi-level list to Word, but to a user they are not. From what I can discern, MS has decided that since under the hood Word treats numbered paragraph headings as a "multi-level list" then users should be fully exposed to how Word works rather than what works for users. Again. The new "process" in Word 2007 is not at all intuitive. Word 2007 makes creating documents using hierarchical numbered paragraph headings much more difficult. When does the next Office release come out??? -- Jim K "PamC via OfficeKB.com" wrote: I missed one very important paret os step 1 for W2007. I should have written place the cursor in the first highest heading level in your document and CLICK THE MULTILEVEL LIST ICON, HTH, Pam PamC wrote: The often recommended ways to set up numbered headings in W2003 and W2007 are similar. In W2003 you (1) modify the paragraph style for your highest heading level, (2) choose a numbering scheme that is close to what you want, (3) click customize (if you don't need to customize it--that is if the scheme is fine as is--you're done), and then (4) make your changes for all numbering levels and style assignments in that one dialog. In W2007 you (1) place the cursor in the first highest heading level in your document, (2) choose a numbering scheme that is close to what you want, (3) click define new multilevel list (if the scheme is fine as is, you're done), and then (4) make your changes for all numbering levels and style assignments in that one dialog. In both versions, if using heading other than Word's built-in Headings 1 to 9, you must define the heading styles before you set up the numbering scheme. Once you select customize list in W2003 and Define new list in W2007, the dialog boxes are nearly the same. See http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numb...Numbering.html PamC This is not at all intuitive. Not at all easy to set up correctly. I use Numbered Heading a lot. [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] What functionality is improved by doing it using the Ribbon Method in the Way of Word 2007? -- Message posted via OfficeKB.com http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forums.a...ayout/200903/1 |
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Is there an easier way to use multiple,numbered Headings?
Hierarchical numbered headings may Look like a multi-level list to Word, but
to a user they are not. I always thought the same to be true of the term "outline list". Jim K wrote: But WHY? Why does the process have to be so much more difficult in Word 2007? Hierarchical numbered headings may Look like a multi-level list to Word, but to a user they are not. From what I can discern, MS has decided that since under the hood Word treats numbered paragraph headings as a "multi-level list" then users should be fully exposed to how Word works rather than what works for users. Again. The new "process" in Word 2007 is not at all intuitive. Word 2007 makes creating documents using hierarchical numbered paragraph headings much more difficult. When does the next Office release come out??? I missed one very important paret os step 1 for W2007. I should have written [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] What functionality is improved by doing it using the Ribbon Method in the Way of Word 2007? -- Message posted via OfficeKB.com http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forums.a...ayout/200903/1 |
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