Options button reveals Options dialog box specific for the chosen field where you can adjust its various options.ĭialog box on the left displays Field Option specific to ListNum field.ĭifferent fields have different field options.įour different Field Properties control type of numbering displayed in the document: When pressed, Field Codes button changes to Hide Codes button and reveals Advanced Field Properties that displays (1) Field Codes for the field, (2) field syntax, and (3) Options… button. Fields are, essentially, data placeholders and Field Codes define what data fields are made of and what kind of data is filled and updated in it. Field Codes button on bottom left is used to reveal Field Codes of the selected field. Now you have Field Properties and Field Options. This is the field we were looking for and it has some “switches” and “levers” we can pull to make some adjustments to fit our needs. In fact, all Fields have a shared feature (guess what ): they are updated automatically! Like two mentioned before, you’ve heard of other well known fields: table of contents, total number of pages, outlined numbered lists, date and time, index and tables, mail merge and others. Numbering and Page Numbers are fields and we were using them without even noticing!
Familiar too? Yes! These features you were using are Fields actually! Have you noticed something familiar? No? Take look again.ĪutoNum is selected and first in the list that look familiar. Take a look at the Field Names on the left. Word 2010 has 9 field categories and 77 fields.Ĭlick on Numbering category to filter and display fields that are related to numbering. Wider part on the right, where you can change Field Properties of the selected field.
On the top there is Categories pull-down menu that can help you narrow down the field list. Narrower part on the left, where you choose a field from a list of available fields. Go to Insert tab, click Quick Parts and choose Field…ġ. Type a text, for example, Article, and press Space to separate the word from the field.Ģ.
#How to insert form fields in word 2010 update
To have auto numbering feature automatically update a number we need to insert Field first.ġ. This time the ones that deal with numbering. There are lot of them, and and we are going to meet some. I can’t use Numbering feature here because the text would look like this:įortunately there are Fields to ease our tasks, to automate and enhance documents. (Believe it or not, I remember typing on a typewriter and making a mistake, adding and throwing pages away, making corrections and typing into the night…) You would have to manually correct page numbers every time you add or delete a page. Imagine what would you have to do if Word was lacking its page numbering feature? I don’t want even to think about it. And I would have to do that each and every time I add or delete an article. But what would happen if I had a hundred (200) articles and wanted to delete Article 9? I would have to correct all remaining values to correct sequence number: I would have to make 91 corrections. Sure, I can copy/paste the text “ Article 4” and change the value manually. I also want Word to number paragraphs automatically when I copy/paste the text “ Article 4” by increasing number 4 by 1 ( one). Here is the document and I want each article to have its own number, starting from number four (4). There are not many of them and knowing fields better will help you creating better documents and save your time. To start numbering from a given paragraph number.įirst, let me explain a little more about Fields and associated options. She was writing a rather long document and wanted to do (or have) few things in her document:Ģ. The other day a colleague of mine had a question about numbering.
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