If the alphabet isn’t your goal, you can always click into the text in the line of a or b, go the numbered list dropdown in the Paragraph group of the Home tab, and select a different format. This has created sub points, and Word assumed that you would like to indicate sub points with lowercase alphabet: To demote them to sub point click to the left of “Our Friends,” and hit tab on your keyboard. In the last section, numbers 4 and 5 should be sub points of number 3. Note: sometimes these options appear above the numbering options, sometimes they are below.Attached to the numbering options in a separate section is the ability to change the formatting: to remove the bold formatting and recolor the text.Right click on top of the first blue number, next to “Taradiddle”.To fix this, let’s take a closer look at that right click menu. Someone used a blue bold font for the text above the numbered list, and Word assumed that this should apply to the numbers on the list. On the exercise document, look at the third section. Sometimes you create a lovely numbered list, and for whatever reason, Word picks up on formatting from a previous line of text, making all the numbers bold, or a previously used color. This option is for those times when you need a special number, perhaps one that is out of sequence with the rest of your numbered list. There is also an option in this menu to Set Numbering Value. This is just another way to access the same feature, a shortcut inserted by Word that will allow you to make the decision whether to continue numbering or restart at 1. What if the opposite happens? Word guesses that you would like to continue numbering, but you actually intend to start over? Easy peasy! Follow the same process, but this time select Restart at 1.Īdditionally, occasionally when you insert a numbered list, you will see a lightening bolt appear with a dropdown arrow. This will pick up the value from the previous numbered list. Right click on top of the number 1 next to the word Brouhaha.Look at the second section of words, starting with “Brouhaha.” It is clear that this list should not be starting over it should be a continuation of the previous list.
How to create line numbers in word series#
This file contains a fascinating list of silly words laid out in series of numbers lists.
How to create line numbers in word download#
To follow along, you may download the exercise file: NumberedLists Don’t despair these little inconveniences are remarkably simple to fix. They usually work seamlessly and automatically, but sometimes these lists can work against us: restarting a list of numbers at 1 when we mean to continue our list, or picking up formatting that we can’t seem to shake, like creating all bold numbers in spite of unbold text. Automated numbered lists are a feature a lot of us take for granted in Microsoft Word….
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