Modify a numbered heading style

[TheQueenBea]

This might be hard to explain. I'm working with a document I didn't create and the page numbers are 12-1, 12-2, 12-3, etc. I want to change the pages to 13-1, 13-2, etc.



Each individual chapter title uses a custom style named GOM-1 which does not contain numbering. The page numbers only show in the Table of Contents and the Footer.

When I go into the footer and click on Page Number, Format Page Number, the 'Include chapter number' is checked and it says the Chapter starts with style: Heading 7.

Heading 7: When I click on Modify Style for Heading 7, in the detail box it states the number style is 1,2,3, +Start at: 12.

I have not been able to find a way to modify the Heading 7 style so it starts at 13. The option of a new start number only seems to be available in a brand new numbering style.

Any help would be appreciated! I've been messing with this for 3 days now

[Stefan Blom]

You'll have to modify the multilevel list format. Place the insertion point in the first level 1 paragraph of the document (with heading numbering, this usually means the first Heading 1 paragraph). Click Home tab | Multilevel List | Define New Multilevel List. In the dialog box, click level 7. Click More to see all options, and then change "Start at" to 13. Click OK.

[TheQueenBea]

Thanks for that solution, Stefan, but it didn't work for me. There is no numbering in the document except in the footer and the TOC. When I followed your instructions it added numbering to the paragraphs. I just want to change the style so the page numbers change in the footer. That would then make the TOC correct. It's complicated, I guess.

[Stefan Blom]

To which paragraphs was numbering added? Note that you can format the numbers as hidden text; then they won't show up in the document but still display with page numbers.

Were you able to change the starting number for Heading 7?