I don’t work with MS Word all the time, so I end up having to re-discover this trick each time. Firstly, this is nothing new. In fact, I’m basically cribbing the steps from here: The reason I’m putting it into my blog is so I know it’s here and can search a smaller field than the whole of the internet. If you’ve any kudos, please send it to the original URL. === This works with MS Word 2007, 2010, and 2013. Nov 12, 2007 I have 200+ Word documents on a server that have a path to a template on an. Remove old Template path from multiple Word. Microsoft Word is a. Nov 01, 2013 removing old template. Microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/word 0 2. The controls are different with earlier versions of MS Word, but I’m sure there is a way to map the steps to those legacy versions. • In your document, click on Multilevel list, then select Define New style. Or, to use the Ribbon, Alt, H, M, L. • In the resulting window, update the”Name” field to something descriptive. Or, to use keyboard shortcuts, Alt + N. For single-key shortcuts, from this point forward, it will be assumed they are discoverable from the UI. Example, here I use “Multilevel Heading” • In the resulting window, click on Format, then Numbering. ![]() ![]() Or, to use keyboard shortcuts, Alt + O, N. • In the resulting window, click on More. • In the updated window, click on Link level to style. In the resulting pulldown, select Heading 1. • Update “Enter formatting for number” field as needed. If you delete the grey shaded number, click on “Number style for this level”, then the style you want, For ease-of-use’s sake, I always just use numbers. • Add the delimiter between the incrementing number and either the corresponding text or the next number. I always just use the period ‘.’ • (Optional, but recommended.) Click on “Set for all Levels.” Otherwise, the headings will march rightward. • In the resulting window, set “Additional indent for each level” to 0. • Select 2 in “Click level to modify”. Set “Link level to style” to Heading 2. Delete existing data in “Enter formatting for number.” Now is where it gets different. Click on “Include level number from” and select Level 1. • Manually type in the delimiter (the period in this case) in “Enter formatting for number,” Then click on “Number style for this level”. Select the desired format for Heading 2. I use number.number, but you can use any other format. • Select 3 in “Click level to modify”. Set “Link level to style” to Heading 3. Delete existing data in “Enter Formatting for number.” Click on “Include level from” and select Level 1. Manually enter the delimiter. Click again on “Include level from” and select Level 2. Manually enter the Delimiter again. • Click on “Number style for this level”. Select the desired format for Heading 3. • At this point the workflow, and a gotcha has been documented. Repeat for all levels you need. I generally don’t use Heading 4 and below, so I stop at level 3. === In conclusion, this is really harder than it needs to be. Some of the web pages detailing this suggests exporting it as a template, but I’d much rather Word came with this a simple control. Hi, wordknowhow. Firstly, thank you for the original post that led to this one. Please note that I retain the attribution. – I've truncated the blog post so it doesn't have the disputed content. – I disagree it is a copy – all the text and screenshots are original. I did this because: * I wanted to add the Ribbon hotkey sequences. * I added the reminder to use 'Set for all levels' for 'Additional indent for each level' (please see steps 8 and 9 in any cached copy of this page) so the headings would be consistently left-aligned * I found the original post to be less than ideal. I prefer complex processes to be cleanly numbered with sparse text. It seems especially appropriate given this topic. I would like to restore the elided content, but will not do so as long as you feel this is somehow a copy. However, if you do feel this way, I am curious on what grounds you feel it is indeed a copy. In closing, thank you for the original post. I agree, MS documentation completely fails concerning multilevel lists. Additionally, it is not even close to being intuitive. But more than that, the controls for it are actually ambiguous and misleading. Then too.there are still bugs in it. To be fair, there is nothing simple about this operation.but still.Microsoft, you've got bzillions of folks and could do this a little better. Whem my multilevel lists start going squirrely on me I usually make sure my active cursor is located in my list and then click >multilevel list>define new multilevel list. I check everything is set the way I want (it usually is) and hit 'ok.' So that seems to just refresh everything and set the list straight again. I don't know if it actually does define a new one (or how I would ever select it again if I wanted to) but that works best for me until MS fixes it. Even if you did copy the content of another's blog, if your blog is not a for-money effort I don't think anybody can say scat about it. Especially since you posted not just a credit to the source but an actual working link. Wordknowhow should be thanking you for driving traffic to his undoubtedly for-money blog page – not whining about it. Given his reaction here, I'm disinclined to visit his page. Pretty sure I can find the information elsewhere. What a self-important crank that guy seems to be. I've been using Word in various incarnations for over 20 years (although I always preferred WordPerfect) and the automatic paragraph numbering was always a weak spot. The extraordinary thing is that it has got worse since 2003 – the bloat really has taken over, and for choice I use Word 2000, although sadly I can't do that at work. As a result, I have spent the best part of 2 days wrestling with a document that refused to number correctly, until I found your blog. I was on the point of doing them all manually, just to save time. I have a bunch of word doc's that were created using a template - which is no longer available. If I am connected the company network when i try to open these documents Word hangs and will not open them. If i disconnect the network cable or i try to open them when not connected the company network the doc's open without a problem. I am wondering if there is anyway to remove the relience on this template from the doc's - I have copied the contents to a new doc and this solves the problem, however there are more than 100 doc's. Any help appreciated. I have inherited a doc from someone and every time I open it, it tries to connect to some network location to download some template. I never understood why and needed to resolve it and made me look for it until one impatient user complained that the document does not open. Here is the procedure to fix this with Office 2013: I had to go to File > Options > Add-Ins. At the bottom click on the drop down that says Manage and select Templates and click on Go. There it was pointing to some person's network folder. I removed that template and all is well. I had problems opening a file that was looking for a template on a remote server. I managed to read it (in word 2013) by selecting 'open in protected view'. Go file > open > computer > browse. Browse for your file, select it but be careful not to just click the 'open button'. Instead, click the little black down wards arrow to the right [Open|▾]. There you find the option to open in protected view). NOTE: This solution is not entirely solving the problem as you may not edit the file. Word still hangs when clicking 'Enable editing'.
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