

It the auto numbering has been activated, you can just click the flash icon before the number, choose Undo Automatic Numbering to stop it for this time, or choose Stop Automatically Creating Numbered Lists.Īlternately, you can toggle on/off the auto numbering by clicking File – Options – Proofing – AutoCorrect Options… Therefore, I’d like to share some useful tips to solve these problems in auto numbering. But in practice, there’re some frequently happened problems can cause your inconvenience. Thanks for the comments and replies, so far.The auto numbering in Word can help you to create a numbered list or add sequence to existing paragraphs automatically, which is very time-saving. I think I may have found where the bug is. I’ve been formatting documents since forever, in nearly every word processing program made for PCs. So, I was pretty surprised when I kept running into this issue. To change the numbering style, select a different style in Number format. (Okay, after the fifth time I had to save & reopen my document, I wasn’t just surprised… I was ready to throw large pieces of furniture at my monitor, until I discovered when the glitch always occurs.) Word replaces the field with the next number in the sequence you have specified. To change the starting page number of the newly created section, select Start at, and then enter a number. Select Close Header and Footer, or double-click outside of the header or footer to exit. For more info on page numbers, see Page numbering in Word. Start new list: Starts the numbering sequence over from 1. If you want a period, tab, or some other character after the number, enter it after the number generated by the SEQ field. You might use this to place two numbered lists one after the other. Word will want to continue the second list with the next number in sequence from the previous list this option tells it not to. Continue from previous list: Tells Word you want to begin your list where the last one. Select everything you created in steps 1 through 5. Word displays the Create New Building Block dialog box. My page numbers were fine until I changed something significant on the page I was working on. I think it changed when I centered the heading, but I’m not sure. I am sure that the numbers changed when I used the ruler at the top of the respective page, and slid it so the highlighted text wasn’t indented (as a paragraph first line) but went all the way to the left margin. When I scrolled through to the next page, all the pages that followed started with page number 1, and went in sequence as if I’d created a special page break. You can set the page numbers to restart by right-clicking on the page number, selecting Format Page Numbers. I checked the hidden formatting notes to be sure.)įor me, the most reliable fix was to delete all the page numbers, save the document without them, close LibreOffice, and reopen both LibreOffice and then the document I was working on. from the context menu and then, in the dialog now opening, entering the desired start value. Here's how: Display the References tab of the ribbon. If you want to make it simpler you can add the below macro to your Normal.dotm file. Click the small icon at the lower-right corner of the Footnotes group. Word displays the Footnote and Endnote dialog box.

Change the Numbering drop-down list to Restart Each Page. Then, I add the page numbers again, from scratch. Yes, when you restart numbering in a section, any section created following that will also restart numbering. It’s a real nuisance and I hope this gets fixed, soon. You have to manually set that section to 'Continue from previous section.' Any subsequent sections will then pick up that setting. Link to Previous just repeats the content of the footer, including the PAGE field the result displayed.
