Numbering and tables

[Unbridled]

Hello,
I have received a document that contains mainly a large group of
tables of 3 columns that is used as a process flow template. Column 1
contains the numbering (1.0, 1.1, 2.0 ...), column 2 contains a
description, and column contains another description. Each row is its
own separate number and the number in column 1 has been manually
input. There are inherent flaws with this design that I would like to
change for future documents.

The main flaw is that if an additional row is inserted, each value in
column 1 has to be manually changed. Were it not in a table, the text
would be handled without issue. My question: is there a way to use
multi-level numbering within a table to eliminate the manual changing
of each row following the change just like it would with text outside
a table? A second question: is there a way to actually apply multi-
level numbering in column 1(scenario: row 1 = 1.0, row 2 =1.1, row 3
=2.0) since there is no real indent like there would be outside a
table?

I suspect this person was a spreadsheet centric user and realized that
Excel had text limitations so they converted Word to look the same as
the original spreadsheet. This is the result....

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

There's no reason you can't have outline numbering in Column 1. Just create
an outline list linked to specific styles and apply those styles to the
table cells as required.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Unbridled]

There's no reason you can't have outline numbering in Column 1. Just create
an outline list linked to specific styles and apply those styles to the
table cells as required.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org

After away from this over the weekend I came back and linked the
various levels and it worked right out of the gate. Thanks for the
advice. It was a simple case of overlooking the obvious.