RE: Value of giving up numbering in Word?

["Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>]

Leonard C. Porrello wrote:
 
> I do think we've beat this horse to death, but I do have one (not
> rhetorical) question. How do all of you aficionados of 
> numbered procedures denote a "procedure" when it has only one step?

All my procedures start with a TaskIntroduction paragraph. For a
single-step procedure, it's followed by a TaskOneStep paragraph, which
has a double-chevron kind of bullet. Probably something like the
arrow-thingies you have six or eight of, one after the other. :-) 

That said, I assiduously avoid single-step procedures. They can almost
always be made into two-, three-, or four-step procedures by adjusting
the granularity or the starting point/assumptions. 

Richard


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