Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Word versions: 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2016. If you are using an earlier version (Word 2003 or earlier), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for earlier versions of Word, click here: Formatting Line Numbers.
Word allows you to add line numbers to your documents, as you have learned in other issues of WordTips. You might be wondering how to change the formatting of the line numbers. Word makes it quite simple by relying on styles for its line numbers. Simply follow these steps:
Figure 1. The Modify Style dialog box.
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2021-10-03 10:50:17
Laurie Lamberth
I FIGURED IT OUT! RE COMMENT: "The style "Line Numbers" does not seem to exist in my document! The line numbers created by Layout>Page Format>Line Numbers are in a different font than the corresponding text and are too big! How can I format Line Numbers when there is no style for them? " It turns out that my Styles section on the Home tab was not displaying ALL styles, only "Recommended" styles. I changed the Styles selection to ALL and then sorted Alphabetically instead of by Recommended -- and THEN I found the style for Line Numbers and was able to modify it.
2021-10-03 10:43:05
Laurie Lamberth
The style "Line Numbers" does not seem to exist in my document! The line numbers created by Layout>Page Format>Line Numbers are in a different font than the corresponding text and are too big! How can I format Line Numbers when there is no style for them?
2020-06-09 18:50:50
NM
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2019-08-27 04:29:12
Kumar
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2016-09-21 01:23:18
sekhar
How to add number of key strokes at the end of every line in the place of line numbers .
2016-03-31 08:08:38
Richard Brown
I need some assistance with line numbers. I am writing up my final draft of my dissertation where I'm looking at a transcript and I need to analyse extracts. However, all but one extract fit nicely on to one page, and this one extract has the line number reset on the second page. I know I can have the line numbers continuous, removing the problem. But I can't have continuous line numbers and must be reset for each new extract. So, how can I have continuous line numbers for one extract (without it moving it onto one page and messing with the structure of the document) and keep the rest of the extracts as they are? Please help with this. I've been tearing my hair out with this and been searching everywhere for a way round this but so far I have not found a way
2016-02-20 01:17:04
Stephen Gray
I want to promote subnumbers to main numbers, e.g.
1.xxx
2.yyy
a. whhh
b. fheqp
I want the next item to be number 3, not c.
I know there's a simple way but don't know what it is.
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