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Hi,
A friend of mine is writing a thesis using Microsoft Word 2010. He would like to have his heading styles look like this:
Heading1 (This will be his chapter heading. If it was displaying a number it would be 1)
1.1 Heading 2
1.1.1 Heading 3
So any formatted text would look like this:
First chapter heading
he wants to format this with the Heading1 multilevel style without showing the numbers
1.1 First heading within this chapter
he wants to format this with the Heading2 mutlilevel style and inherit the chapter number from the chapter he's writing in (although he doesn't want to display the number on the chapter's title)
1.2 Second heading within this chapter
again he wants to format this with the Heading2 mutlilevel style and inherit the chapter number from the chapter he's writing in (although he doesn't want to display the number on the chapter's title)
1.2.1 A sub heading within section 1.2
this would be formatted using the Heading3 mutlilevel style and should inherit the chapter number from the Heading1 multilevel style (which wouldn't be displaying the chapter number), and the Heading2 level number (in this case 2)
Second chapter heading
2.1 First heading within this chapter
2.2 Second heading within this chapter
2.2.1 A sub heading within section 2.2
and so on...
He has created a new multilevel list style that shoes no number for Heading1, then starts with Heading2. When formatting the Heading2 multilevel it was not possible to choose the Level1 number format to display in the Level2 style - and understandably so. He would then like to include the chapter numbers when captioning his figures and therefore his table of figures. If he wanted to show the number on his heading1 style multi-level, then this would be easy. However, he wants to suppress the number from appearing on his Heading 1 mutilevel lists; but display in sequence from thereafter.
As you can probably guess from this, his problem arises when including the chapter number in his captions doesn't work properly. Because he has chosen not to display a number on Heading1, Word is picking his chapters up at the Heading2 style.
Can anyone offer any suggestions please? I've tried everything I can think of. Maybe I've missed something. Maybe he has to include the numbering on his chapter headings (Heading 1 multilevel style, currently not displaying a number) in order for these to pick up properly.
I hope I've given you enough information and I've explained what he wants to do. If not, please don't hesitate to ask.
Many thanks
Karen
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The easiest way is to click the number for a Heading 1 paragraph (you'll see that Word select the number for all Heading 1 paragraphs in the document) and then apply hidden formatting, for example by pressing Ctrl+Shift+H.
Instead of outdenting level 1/Heading 1, you can change what Word adds after the now hidden number. By default, Word uses a tab, but you should change it to nothing at all. Place the insertion point in the first Heading 1 paragraph of the document. Click Home tab | Multilevel List | Define New Multilevel List. Click More (if necessary) to all options of the dialog box. In the "Follow number with" box, choose "Nothing." Click OK.
Click the ¶ button on the Home tab, so that Word displays nonprinting marks, including paragraph marks (¶). Doing this will also display hidden text, so you'll temporarily see the hidden paragraph numbers as well. Look for a blank paragraph, that is, a paragraph mark not preceded by text, in Heading 1 style. You can select and delete the paragraph or, at the very least, apply Normal style to it (you can use Ctrl+Shift+N).
Hi Stefan,
Thank you very much for your reply. I've just met with Simon and have implemented your ideas and they work wonderfully.
However, there is something odd going on with the captions in the first chapter of the thesis. Figures 1 - 3 are adopting the chapter numbers without a problem. The other figures in chapter 1 are showing that they are in chapter 0. The figures in the other chapters are all fine, and if we copy and paste the figures showing chapter 0 into another chapter they work fine. They simply don't work where they are. We've tried removing and reinstating the captions and deleting and reinserting the figures. We've even tried cutting and pasting the figures into different chapters where they work correctly. This has led me to think that there is a formatting problem between the last figure in chapter 1 that works to the start of chapter 2. I've checked the styles and formats used and I can't see anything unusual.
Can you think of anything that may be causing this problem? If you've got any ideas I'd be grateful to hear them.
Thanks again for your help. It has been invaluable. Thank also for the tip on editing previous posts. I don't know how I missed that.
Kind regards
Karen
Hi Stefan,
Please accept my apologies for calling you Simon in my last reply.
Note that you can edit your previous post.