Converting autonumbers to literal text is what I'm talking about. There's a
ConvertNumbersToText command or the like in VBA that does this. Surely
someone will be along with it shortly. Ah, wait...thank you, Google: first
hit is a post from Dave Rado three years ago:
Create a macro containing one line:
ActiveDocument.ConvertNumbersToText
and run it
Another post
(http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=850201c205
08%24d9ee1010%243bef2ecf%40TKMSFTNGXA10) has a longer discussion but ends up
with the following:
You can run a line of code:
ActiveDocument.ConvertNumbersToText(wdNumberAllNumbers)
You would do this by first going Tools / Macro / Visual
Basic Editor
then typing the phrase in the Immediate window, hitting
Enter, then going File / Close ...
With toolbar numbers, this actually gives a pretty good
result. (You'll eventually want to Close the document
without Saving.)
However, with style-based numbers, it's a messy
situation. The paragraphs still retain the old style
names, even though the numbers are manual. (You can tell
they're manual because your cursor can reach them.)
To be really thorough, you should apply different styles
to those paragraphs.
I found that with VBA, it was helpful to use an
unimportant practice document first.
A post in another, similar thread says:
There's a VBA method that does exactly that called "ConvertNumbersToText".
The method is available from the document object,
so you can convert all the autonumbering in your document to text with just
the command:
"ActiveDocument.ConvertNumbersToText"
The method is also available from the List object, if you only want to apply
it to certain subsets of autonumbers in your doc. (like all the all outline
numbered paragaphs but not bulleted paragraphs), and it's available from the
Range.ListFormat object, if you only want to apply it to a certain range in
your document.
See more info in online help under "ConvertNumbersToText."
Other answers turned up by Google suggest copying and pasting as "Plain
Text."
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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Post by JezebelThere's a field switch somewhere that does it too, although I can never find
the help topic when I need it. But I don't think that's what the OP is
asking. Unless I've misunderstood, the aim is to convert the number of an
auto-numbered paragraph to literal text (not words for text, but digits as
such) so that adding more items to the list won't cause existing paragraphs
to be renumbered.
Post by Suzanne S. BarnhillFrom time to time someone posts a macro to convert numbers to text. It's a
single VBA command.
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Post by Jezebelso
Post by Suzanne S. Barnhillall may benefit.
Post by JezebelThere's no automatic way. It could be done with VBA, but even then, not
easy.
Hi,
I have been using the style "Heading 4" with autonumbering (e.g.
5.3.2.1)
Post by Jezebelto
number rows in tables. Now the document is finalized and i need to
convert
Post by Jezebelthe auto numbers into fixed/static numbers so that the numbering wont
change
when inserting new rows in the tables.
Does anybody know if this can be done?
Best regards, Bertrand