Re: Locking Section Numbers in Word

[John Posada <jposada99 -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Thanks...I have 400 sections being distributed among 6 different people,
very few as a group of sections...
I was hoping there was an F-key combination that I apply once to lock and a
similar key combination to unlock.

On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 11:34 AM Emoto <emoto1 -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:

> You only have to do it for the first heading on the first page of the
> section. Then, all following numbering will simply follow. How many
> different sections are you breaking out? It sounded like only 6, but I
> may have misunderstood.
>
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 11:30 AM John Posada <jposada99 -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks, but I have 40 pages of sections, 5-10 sections per page.
> >
> > I need something that will affect the document at a global level. I'm not
> > going to do this 400 times.
> >
> > Thanks anyway
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 11:26 AM Slager Timothy J <
> > Timothy -dot- Slager -at- dematic -dot- com> wrote:
> >
> > > Right-click on the paragraph.
> > > Select Numbering > Set Numbering Value (at bottom of menu)
> > >
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> > > Subject: Locking Section Numbers in Word
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> > > Hi guys...I have a 40 page Word document (Office Standard 2013) that I
> want
> > > to break into sections and distribute to 6 different content
> contributors.
> > >
> > > All section numbering is by Style, so when a section is distributed,
> the
> > > numbering resets for that section to 1.x.
> > >
> > > Is there a way of locking the section numbers so when I move one
> section,
> > > it retains its number. I want to be able to lock and unlock, not
> convert to
> > > hard numbers.
> > >
> > > Thanks
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