Hierarchical Outline numbering for Microsoft Word Documents
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- Need help with word numbering format 1.1 1.2 1.3 ? Learn how to apply hierarchical outline numbering for Microsoft Word Documents in a way that perfects the formatting of technical documentation and proposals. Also a life saver for thesis/school papers! Headings will have the format 1 Title, 1.1 Subtitle, 1.1.1 Next Level Subtitle, etc. and your headings will auto number the right way. I also discuss why you would use this format, and in what situations you would NOT use this format. At the end, I added some bonus content on how to leverage the outline numbered headings to make a table of contents, and how to handle headings for Appendix sections.
I would really appreciate your feedback. I have a goal to bring more than just "how to steps" to my audience, but to also really explain the WHY aspect of using certain features of Microsoft Office. Thanks for watching!
Your video is dope! Thought I knew numbering, but you added a whole new "spin" to it. Thanks a 1,000,000! So, so, so much appreciated!
So glad this was helpful to you. Love this comment too - made my morning. :)
What this person said x1,000,000!!
Doing the lord’s work 🎉
This is the most competent tutorial I have ever seen. Thank you very much.
Absolutely brilliant; I have a 15,000 word dissertation and I need to number it and put in a contents page. This is the first guidance I have seen which shows me how to do it (onscreen example), uses enough jargon and not too much, and is really really helpful. The stuff on the microsoft site is crap. Lots of videos are crap. This is magic. Thanks, Michael (much older post-career student!)
Thank you... Just spent hours banging my head against the wall about this
I could never have figured this out in a million years. THANK YOU !!!
So glad this video helped - and thanks for the kind comment!
Seven years later, its still a great video. Thanks for sharing with everyone! This video is great!
I know this is such an old video, but boy was it a GREAT video. Over 10 years ago I wrote my thesis and I admit this was one of the more challenging bits when formatting the document. The reason I like this video is because it shows how to link the multi level lists to the STYLES. All the videos I watched just showed how to create multi level lists when where I was really getting undone was the element of LINKING with the styles.
Just BRILLIANT.
Winnie, thank you so much for your kind words (and my apologies for taking so long to reply). I am so glad this video helped you.
It's 4 years latter and your info is still valuable. Thank you
4 years later here and i can say the same.
Whosoever you are, May God bless you immensely. I found this really helpful.
Glad it was helpful! Thank you for your very kind comment, and may God bless you as well. :)
I am 70 years old and learning, thanks for explaining in such great detail, made my bible lesson so easy to put together thanks again for GOD has blessed you
This is by far the BEST tutorial I've seen on this topic. I love how thorough yet simple it is. I also love how each step was captured. Thanks a million times over❤
I followed some videos lost heart along the way all just did an example of chapter 1 leaving you wandering how chapter 2 would get a number on it. Well explained . The best I have seen.
It is loud and clear. good content
After 8 years i am still taking help from your video. A big thanks
Thanks lots, your explanation is simple and to the point!!
Thank you!! I have spent more time than I want to admit (way more!) trying to 'clean-up' a copy of a State law to provide the advantages of an automatic Table of Contents and automatic renumbering. This is in preparation for an extensive rewrite of our condominium association by-laws. In the process I am trying to master(?) multi-level numbering. The original form of the law state has an archaic, amateur, and confusing numbering scheme. But I want to preserve that scheme so my version is clearly recognized as just a reformatted version of the original.
I am a retired high school teacher and I have learned the importance of identifying what can be ignored and to what you must pay attention when confronted with a large, complicated, and new topic. My lengthy trial and error period with multi-level numbering has provided lots of exercise with that process of ignoring/paying attention regarding the menus for multi-level numbering and formatting. Your video made quite a bit of sense when I first watched it and even more so now that I have greater familiarity with menus and styles. Now I think that linking renumbering to headings/styles will resolve my last hurdle of getting unexplained changes in style when I reset list numbers to 1.
As a teacher of math and science I also found that providing my students with an over arching analogy or a discussion of structure and function provided a context for the nitty-gritty details of press-this-choose-that-menu,-set-this -value-to-X kinds of instructions. I have to believe there are people at MS that have the ability to take the warehouse of features in Word, that are intended to serve a multitude of scenarios, and provide an explanation of structure, function, and interrelationship that would help users glean what they need for their situation.
I studied and experimented for 4 hours based on another video but failed. This video made me succeed. Thank you so much.
This is the most helpful video for table of contents
I watched a lot... none of them did mutilevels... ive been stuck all day trying to figure it out
Thank you!!!!!!
Glad it helped! Thanks for sharing your success with me!
😮😮😮OMG I think this is AMAZING!
I just wasted 2 hrs trying to figure the format and style in a document! You managed to help me fix it!
The navigation pane is the 💣!!
This video is brilliant. I've been struggling to create some templates for about a week now, and kept hitting the problem of 1.1 becoming 1.1.1, then 2.1.1 , then 3.1.1 while still under the 1.1 heading! Your work is the only piece that told me about the section that I had to use where one includes the previous level, working backward not forward. You have saved my bacon and I'm very grateful.
I have been there. So glad this helped you. I really appreciate you sharing that with me!
Very helpful and concise. Make sure you pick the numbering for different levels.
You got it! That's the key. Thanks for posting.
I have been searching for this for a long time now. Thanks a lot to you for making this video.
This video is really useful seven years later!!
i watched 4 or 5 videos before watching yours and i must say you made me understand the best out of all the other people who taught this. thank you very much!
Thank you for showing how to handle the Appendix as you did! I didn't know that deleting the outline number part would survive the Table of Contents update. So glad you demonstrated that!
So glad that part was helpful to you! I love that trick.
My first technical writing exercise was responding to an RFP on an old DEC main frame. It had an APP called WordPerfect. And it was... perfect at least in its multi-level numbering capability. Then, it was like a week later DEC went out of business and up sprouted MicroSoft. I struggled with this need in Word for years, usually reverting to manually setting up the document. Where my first MS Office purchases were Word95 and then Office 2000. They came close at times but never this comprehensive. Though not clearly intuitive. I always figured WordPerfect had patents on the process/technology preventing MS form a clear and intuitive implementation. Thank you very much for this much needed video.
Thanks, This is really helpful.
Specially when you adapt to someone's messed up document & wonder why things are not working as per your expectations.
Thanks Again ! This really helped me.
Thank you so much - your tutorial is brilliant
Thank you so very much. After watching tens of videos regarding the problem of having a continuation of heading numbers in different chapters, I finally could solve it by watching this amazing video.
This video has helped me greatly. I am just beginning my 15,000 dissertation. Thank you!
Wow! I wish you all the best with your dissertation.
I struggled with this problem all day until I found your video. Thanks!
At long last, a tutorial on multi-level numbering that makes sense! Every other 'how-to' I've watched on the subject left me confused. Your video unlocked the mystery by including steps the others left out, and explaining them in a logical order. Thank you, it's much appreciated.
Thank you so much for your kind words!
You are a great teacher. Skillfully explained a complex process in very simple steps. Thank you.
You're very welcome! Thank you for taking the time to comment and for being so kind. I appreciate it!
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Thanks so much for this. After formatting the styles for the levels I can see how quick it is. Numbering and indents in MS Word has been driving me bonkers for a long time!!!, it was one of the mysteries of the universe ;)
I know the feeling! Thanks for posting such a nice comment and best of luck with your documents.
This instruction is better than anything else I have seen regarding this topic. Your approach is paced just right and there are simple direct visuals that make short work of a topic that can be tedious and confused. Thanks for your effort.
Very helpful information. Adding numbers to an outline in Word is more complicated than it needs to be. This video provides really clear instructions as to how to do that. Thank you. I was using Word 2016 on a MAC
Thanks! 3 years later, but today your help is still great!
Thank you.
As someone previously said, brilliant!
The presentation is clear, methodical and on point. One just has to follow the instructions to get it done in no time.
Life saving information for those of you who work with contracts and lots of other complex & long documents like bachelor/master/doctorate thesis.
Your kind words are much appreciated! Thank you for commenting!
Thank you. The numbering scheme has always been one of the most unintuitive ways of defining multilevel lists, and about time it was revamped. The video make the functionality bearable.
I have watched several videos on different formatting issues (especially since the upgrades) and this was by far the best one I found, thank you so so much for clarifying my frustration:)
Thank you so much for your kind words, I am so glad it helped!
This really calmed me down and reduced my blood pressure :-)... Thank you for making it so simple.
My thoughts right now...
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Thanks. Been searching how to do this for a while and yours provides the best and easiest tutorial required to get the job done :)
OMG, I’ve been struggling with this multilevel list since last year when I started drafting my Standard Operating Procedure. Today, I came across your video and it’s amazing how easy it was to fix the numbering in my document. Love it! Thank you so much for the step by step explanation.
Glad it was helpful!
I am working on my thesis. And I worked hard to number my thesis headings. And I was not successful with that.
Finally I have found what I was looking for.
I am so thankful for you sequenced video.
Much love
This was so clear and well-preseted. It has since saved me a lot of "go back and reformat" time. Many thanks!
After having seen a few videos on this subject I was still struggling with the numbering. Not anymore since your tutorial was perfect. Exactly what I needed. Thank you so much!
I tried many vedios but this is the most easiest and well explaining with clear voice...
I was frustrated with this numbering but you explained it well. Thank you very much for making my formatting easy.
Glad it helped!
Your tutorial is a great help! Your audio and speech is loud and clear, informative, and not boring at all. Timing
Thanks for your kind words! Thanks also for the subscribe.
Best tutorial on this subject so far !!
👏👏👏wow... what a fantastic demonstration, with lucid language. Kudos and Thank you!
I have been struggling with this process for about 3 months. Very simple, and easy to understand. Thank you very much!
Thank you so much for this video. Though I know this feature I never knew that this is how we give heading numbering. I struggled a lot with this. Now, this is not a problem for me. Thanks a lot for sharing this.
It makes my day to see comments like this. Thank you!
Thank you so much. It clarifies a very messy, awkward, non-intuitive procedure that Microsoft should smooth out :). Great work!
I used two hours for finding you way to fix the problem, finally there. Great help! Thx a lot.
So glad I could help. Good luck with your document!
Thank you so much. I was struggling with that and it was delaying me from actually writing my thesis for which I have limited time anyway with my 12-month old son. Thank you!!!
I am so glad. Family is everything. Good luck with your thesis.
Bravo! Applause! I have been struggling all day with numbered headings. Of course Microsoft had to make it difficult. Thank you for this. I guess the only thing I wouldn't do would be to backspace over the numbers in an Appendix heading. You explained things perfectly and I can't wait to go back to my document tomorrow and show it who's boss.
That’s right, show that document who’s boss!!! Thank you for your kind words and good luck!
Very helpful. I have been very confused over hierarchical outline numbering in Word, your video was the first to make sense.
Excellent. I have been looking at some videos which have significantly more views than this video, but this is by far the most excellent video I have seen on this topic. Well done!
So nice that you went the extra mile to show the TOC
God bless you. After watching this video I was able to apply it perfectly in my master thesis. Most Grateful.
Perfect. I was pulling my hair out trying to get my outline numbering to work, and this solved. Thx a ton.
Glad it helped! And glad you get to keep your hair :)
Omg! This is helpful! Thank you. I just started with a real estate division Nd I needed to learn style and toc
hey your a life saver! Years fighting word the wrong way, thanks!
Great video! The whole process is very convoluted and nonintuitive. I have read several written tutorials and couldn't get anywhere. This really cleared things up. Thank you.
Has cleared the concept. Was always struggling while making project reports. Thank you. Will get enhanced readibility for the readers. Much Appreciated.
Glad it helped!
It helps a lot and more in details. Many videos have a million views without any valuable information. I wonder why your video not reached in view count which having such valuable information. Really great job. Please do more video is Microsoft word like 1. inserting only figure number inside the paragraph. 2. insert the first name and year from the reference section.
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What a kind thing to say. Thank you!
Great tutorial. Very clearly explained. I usually work from existing documents or templates which already have the heading numbering in place, but recently needed to edit a document from an outside source which had broken headings and styles. Hence, had to work out how to get the heading numbers in place. Unintuitive is the understatement of the year. As a long time Word user I'm pleased you mentioned that Microsoft changed the way this was done in 2010. In my view they made this common requirement virtually dysfunctional. Microsoft really need to add this in as a standard heading format in some way. Anyway, thanks for the clear explanation.
Very good video. I learned a LOT in 12 minutes. You just saved me countless hours I routinely waste each year.
Just wow. You saved me days of work on a 300 pages long technical document which most likely would have looked like 💩 in the end!
I’m so glad the video helped. Comments like this absolutely make my day, so thank you!
@@YoungCareerPros as of now I've spent 2 hours trying to figure out something and hopefully you might help.
Say I have a heading on a page and want to insert a table under that heading. For some reason the table, which stretches over 2 pages long and breaks correctly, just jumps on the next page, after the heading I want it directly under. Safe to say there is enough space under the heading for almost half the table...
Oh man! That is a bummer- there are several possible causes. Here is a good article with several possibilities: www.google.com/amp/s/cybertext.wordpress.com/2014/09/18/word-table-or-table-row-goes-to-next-page/amp/. Let me know if any of these suggestions solve your issue. Worst case you can email me the doc and I can have a look this weekend.
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Thank you so much for your response. I will give that a try. The tabs and indents are all over the place. The margins, when adjusted, cause a nightmare to the indents and tabs.... The list goes on. Some of these outlines are 25 pages long with three separate divisions. It gets rather complicated as you can imagine. A couple years ago I "fixed" one by starting at the top and deleting the outline levels one line at a time, deleting spaces until it was on the preceding line then hitting return (enter). Then I could indent or unindent and repeat with the next line. What a hassle!
Thanks again for the reply.
Good luck! If you get stuck you can reach me at freebies@ginanairn.com.
Very professional! Thank you very much! Your instructions were so easy to follow. Handling the numbering of the appendixes at the end was a new trick for me!
Thanks for this kind comment! So glad I could help.
Amazing video, Gina! Have been racking my brains trying to sort out numbered lists in my document since yesterday - you've taught me how to resolve it within 10 minutes! Thank you again
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Love back to you from the USA! Thanks for the compliment and I wish you the best with your learning.
Wow, where have you been all my life? That video was just about as good as it gets! Clear, concise, and very well organized! Thank you so much! I am looking forward to viewing some of your other material! Have a great day.
I’ve been looking for this video all night. Thanks now i can show up at work with tye solution!
Awesome to hear! Thanks!
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Thank you Thank you Thank you for slowly and thoroughly explaining this complex formatting topic.
You're very welcome!
Great tutorial Gina - you've saved me hours of frustration! Thanks very much.
So glad I could help! Thanks for posting your kind comment!
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Fabulous tutorial. It is really easy to get lost in the style area in Word. Thanks for providing clear instructions - you got me out of a jam with the user manual I am writing!
So glad to hear! Thank you for posting.
Thank you so much! I have ready many tutorials but your video made the numbering crystal clear!
So glad to hear! Thanks for the nice comment :)
This is the best video that I could find about this. Thank you very much.
You're very welcome!
Was wandering around and found this video tutorial useful after several years of try. Quite Something worth noting here.
You did a very nice job, SO MUCH BETTER THAN OTHER VIDEOS ON TH-cam I'VE WATCHED!,
Oh thank you, Gina! I was tearing my hair out, oh hasn't Word changed! Excellent video, a great speed to follow and take in, excellent explanation and I'm totally on the same page as you about completing things by showing TOC as well. So glad I came across your video and channel :)
I am so glad I could help! Welcome to the channel and thanks for posting, it made my day!
You are the light at the end of my dark tunnel!!
This was veryyy helpful, thank you so much
Simply, easy to follow and understand. thanks so much - your video with instructions is my go-to for long documents.
Awesome tutorial! Thank you so much for keeping it short and to the point. Loved the added bonus info at the end.
Thanks so much for your kind words!
Thank you, madam, for giving such a wonderful tutorial about the formatting of technical documents, it helped me a lot. it reduces my effort and repetitive work.
You are welcome! I am always glad when I learn ways to save time. Glad this may help you.
Great video and very helpful. I have been searching for this tutorial to help me complete an operations manual. Thank you very much.
Most useful and clearly explained video I could find
Swati, I apologize for my delayed reply, and I thank you for your kind words!
You are awesome! This is a perfectly made video on numbering that will be extremely helpful to me as an admin. I love the way you explain everything in a manner that makes it easy to understand the first time.
Thanks so much for your kind words!
Great help! I’ve been struggling with this and you made it easy. Thank you from South Wales. UK
Thanks so much. I watched another two videos which were shorter, but yours provided a clear explanation that I can use.
Thank you so much for this tutorial! Very clear and easy to follow, with each step explained logically. I now fully understand how to format my document numbering!
Glad it was helpful! And thank you for posting such kind words!
Thank you for this beautiful presentation; you were very patient and very easy to follow. I now have a better understanding of the multiple levels arrangement and about to apply it to an MOM I have been battling with for some time now. Merci beaucoup!
So happy this video helped you! Thank you for the kind comment.
You are a great teacher ! Very well explained ! Thanks a lot !!!
Thank you for the lovely words. So glad this video helped you.