Hi, I'm new n this forum and I wonder if the following question has been asked before (I haven't found a search function.)

1) I'd like to be able to have the "Page X of Y" subset to come on top of my dropdown menu when I click "Insert page number / page bottom". As y'all know, by default, it's always at the end of the dropdown menu. I've been playing around with the QuickParts BuildingBlocks Organizer, renaming those sections "01 Page X of Y" or "AAA Page X of Y". Unfortunately, although they were renamed correctly, still this didn't work out though and that subset still comes up at the bottom of my list. In other words, nothing changed.



2) Similarly, for my Headings dropdown menu, I'd like my personal categories to come on top of my list. Despite my naming those categories "01 - Myself" or "AAA - Myself", they still come somewhere further down the dropdown menu. And yet again, playing around with the QuickParts BuildingBlocks Organizer proved unsuccessful. Again, in other words, nothing changed.

I guess thousands of users before me have wanted to organize their QuickParts BuildingBlocks by either renaming categories or creating new ones in such a way that the renamed or new categories showed on top of their dropdown menus. Sure there must be a workaround! Could somebody please either give me the solution or point me to the appropriate resolved & closed threads?

These are in alphabetical order, first by category and then by name.
You can store entries you want as custom entries in the Building Blocks.dotm file. You could create a new category: _mine or store them in the Built-In category using underscores at the start of the name.
Where can Building Blocks be stored?

Thank you very much, Charles Kenyon, for your quick, short, and efficient answer!

I'll make do with the underscores if it's what it takes. I'll keep it in mind for future renamings in everything Ms-Office. Thank you very much for the tip!

Where and how did you learn all those tricks?? They should be included both in the Help contents and the different manuals!

Your issues could be resolved easily enough by removing the entries that you never want to use.

It can be useful to remove all the existing entries from the Built-In Building Blocks.dotx template if you are actually putting in your own entries. For me, the huge number of entries there are good for sparking ideas but in a corporate environment they just get in the road of productivity.

Deleting all these entries is not irreversible because you can remove the template from %appdata%\Microsoft\Document Building Blocks\1033\16 (or whatever location relates to your language and version) and it will be recreated by opening Word.

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia

Good thoughts Andrew.

Another method is to create a category or categories that come before "Built-In" in alphabetical order. The underscore can be used in naming them if you want.

Most of what I know about Word I learned in forums (formerly newsgroups dating back to CompuServe) like this one. I am trying to pay forward some off that knowledge. I suspect that this particular tip was passed on to me by Suzanne Barnhill.