Hi guys,

I'm just trying to write up my thesis with word 2010. So i have 6 chapters and i'm using Heading 1 for the main Chapter Headings. What i wanna do is to hide the numberings in front of this Headings. As you can imagine i have plenty of sections too. So from Chapter 1 to Chapter 3 there is no sections and all the Headings are looking good with hidden numbering. In Chapter 3 i've started to create sections. Now i'm in Chapter 4 and there is a Strikethrough on my hidden heading numbering and right next to it there is unhidden one. So it shows the numbering and doesn't allow me to hide.



So Chapter 4, 5 and 6 Heading Numberings are all same. I guess it's related to section breaks since i recently got over my issues with headers&footers.

It would be really great if somebody can help me with this.

Cheers

What you need to do is to edit the document's multi-level list numbering setup, so Heading 1 is un-numbered. See attached.

The important thing in implementing such an arrangement is to first select one of your chapter headings, then work through the multi-level list numbering setup for all applicable levels while that chapter heading is selected.

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Heading Numbers.docx (35.6 KB, 10 views)

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Thanks very much Paul. I sorted it out.

Cheers

Hey Paul,

I wanna ask a quick question. I have been using heading 1 numbers for the Table and Figure captions. Now there is no Heading numbers and all the Figure and Table numbers starts with zero (ie Figure 0.1, Table 0.1)!!

Can you pls advise me smt for this too ?

Cheers

You can't have it both ways - either you have a number for the Chapter or you don't. Do note that having a number for the Chapter doesn't mean that number also has to appear in the other headings. See attached.

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Heading Numbers.docx (36.0 KB, 11 views)

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Thanks Paul,

What i was trying to do was

" Chapter 1

The title of the Chapter"

So instead of hiding or not using the heading numbers, basically i added the text "Chapter" in front of the heading numbers in the multilevel list and used shift+enter to take the title underneath. It also allowed me to use the captions as well.

Thanks for the help.