Autonumber & Microsoft Word

[WorkinOnIt13]

I know this is not for excel. but I can not figure it out for some reason, I am having a brain fart! Auto Number Labels in Word.....? Anyone know how..?


Edited by Nate: Moved and new thread title.

 

[NateO]

Hello,

You want to understand Autonumbering for Word, then?

 

[WorkinOnIt13]

Example

Well for example I have selected to make Return Address Labels! I am trying to automatically label them all in sequence by number

2506 2507 2508 2509
2510 2511 2512 2513

As shown above the labels are four across.....I want the sequence to be either acroos or down, does not matter! Does that help???

Thats correct yes!!!!

 

[NateO]

Where, in Excel?

I usually associate Autonumber with Access:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q244136/

But I don't use Word much.

If you're talking about Excel, would some variety of =Count() work?

I'm not quite following how that matrix of numbers is generated...

 

[WorkinOnIt13]

I am thinking about trying something like that also....I just know that there is a function already stored in Microsoft word that does it for you, but it is impossible to find, especially when most my work is in Excel/Access?Wordperfect! Thanks!

 

[gwkenny]

Yeah

You'd think it would be the field code autonum...

You want to stay away from Autonum, especially if you are migrating between different versions of Word.

Use SEQ.

So let's say you want to start the first number at 500.

Use the menu and choose: Insert/Field Code.

Indicate SEQ. And use the following X \r500

So the code will look like this in the document if you expose codes:
{SEQ X \r 500 \* MERGEFORMAT}

X is just a variable name. Don't have to declare it or anything, it's just so if you have different sequences of numbers, it knows which one to increment, so you can have multiple series of sequential numbers. You can change X to be anything you want. Even a word.

\r means to reset the number count beginning at... In this case 500 as that's what I typed

Now, if you want to increment, then you use the following field code:

{SEQ X \* MERGEFORMAT}

Sorry if this isn't written very linearly. It's 2:45am here!

Hope this helps

 

[gwkenny]

Just an aside

Just an aside...

I really hope Microsoft continues to unify all the different objects within their **** office apps so the same objects behave the same, the functions behave the same, blah blah blah. I'm pschyzo as it is! I don't need no mo help!