Hierarchical Outline numbering for Microsoft Word Documents 

Your video is dope! Thought I knew numbering, but you added a whole new "spin" to it. Thanks a 1,000,000! So, so, so much appreciated!

Whosoever you are, May God bless you immensely. I found this really helpful.

It's 4 years latter and your info is still valuable. Thank you

I could never have figured this out in a million years. THANK YOU !!!

I know this is such an old video, but boy was it a GREAT video. Over 10 years ago I wrote my thesis and I admit this was one of the more challenging bits when formatting the document. The reason I like this video is because it shows how to link the multi level lists to the STYLES. All the videos I watched just showed how to create multi level lists when where I was really getting undone was the element of LINKING with the styles. Just BRILLIANT.

Thanks, This is really helpful. Specially when you adapt to someone's messed up document & wonder why things are not working as per your expectations. Thanks Again ! This really helped me.

This is the most competent tutorial I have ever seen. Thank you very much.

Very helpful and concise. Make sure you pick the numbering for different levels.

This really calmed me down and reduced my blood pressure :-)... Thank you for making it so simple.

Seven years later, its still a great video. Thanks for sharing with everyone! This video is great!

After 8 years i am still taking help from your video. A big thanks

This video is brilliant. I've been struggling to create some templates for about a week now, and kept hitting the problem of 1.1 becoming 1.1.1, then 2.1.1 , then 3.1.1 while still under the 1.1 heading! Your work is the only piece that told me about the section that I had to use where one includes the previous level, working backward not forward. You have saved my bacon and I'm very grateful.

Absolutely brilliant; I have a 15,000 word dissertation and I need to number it and put in a contents page. This is the first guidance I have seen which shows me how to do it (onscreen example), uses enough jargon and not too much, and is really really helpful. The stuff on the microsoft site is crap. Lots of videos are crap. This is magic. Thanks, Michael (much older post-career student!)

At long last, a tutorial on multi-level numbering that makes sense! Every other 'how-to' I've watched on the subject left me confused. Your video unlocked the mystery by including steps the others left out, and explaining them in a logical order. Thank you, it's much appreciated.

I am 70 years old and learning, thanks for explaining in such great detail, made my bible lesson so easy to put together thanks again for GOD has blessed you

Thank you... Just spent hours banging my head against the wall about this

This video is really useful seven years later!!

Very helpful information. Adding numbers to an outline in Word is more complicated than it needs to be. This video provides really clear instructions as to how to do that. Thank you. I was using Word 2016 on a MAC

This is the most helpful video for table of contents I watched a lot... none of them did mutilevels... ive been stuck all day trying to figure it out Thank you!!!!!!

This is by far the BEST tutorial I've seen on this topic. I love how thorough yet simple it is. I also love how each step was captured. Thanks a million times over❤

Thank you so very much. After watching tens of videos regarding the problem of having a continuation of heading numbers in different chapters, I finally could solve it by watching this amazing video.

Thank you for showing how to handle the Appendix as you did! I didn't know that deleting the outline number part would survive the Table of Contents update. So glad you demonstrated that!

Thank you!! I have spent more time than I want to admit (way more!) trying to 'clean-up' a copy of a State law to provide the advantages of an automatic Table of Contents and automatic renumbering. This is in preparation for an extensive rewrite of our condominium association by-laws. In the process I am trying to master(?) multi-level numbering. The original form of the law state has an archaic, amateur, and confusing numbering scheme. But I want to preserve that scheme so my version is clearly recognized as just a reformatted version of the original. I am a retired high school teacher and I have learned the importance of identifying what can be ignored and to what you must pay attention when confronted with a large, complicated, and new topic. My lengthy trial and error period with multi-level numbering has provided lots of exercise with that process of ignoring/paying attention regarding the menus for multi-level numbering and formatting. Your video made quite a bit of sense when I first watched it and even more so now that I have greater familiarity with menus and styles. Now I think that linking renumbering to headings/styles will resolve my last hurdle of getting unexplained changes in style when I reset list numbers to 1. As a teacher of math and science I also found that providing my students with an over arching analogy or a discussion of structure and function provided a context for the nitty-gritty details of press-this-choose-that-menu,-set-this -value-to-X kinds of instructions. I have to believe there are people at MS that have the ability to take the warehouse of features in Word, that are intended to serve a multitude of scenarios, and provide an explanation of structure, function, and interrelationship that would help users glean what they need for their situation.

Simply, easy to follow and understand. thanks so much - your video with instructions is my go-to for long documents.

This instruction is better than anything else I have seen regarding this topic. Your approach is paced just right and there are simple direct visuals that make short work of a topic that can be tedious and confused. Thanks for your effort.

This video has helped me greatly. I am just beginning my 15,000 dissertation. Thank you!

I followed some videos lost heart along the way all just did an example of chapter 1 leaving you wandering how chapter 2 would get a number on it. Well explained . The best I have seen.

I struggled with this problem all day until I found your video. Thanks!

After having seen a few videos on this subject I was still struggling with the numbering. Not anymore since your tutorial was perfect. Exactly what I needed. Thank you so much!

I have been searching for this for a long time now. Thanks a lot to you for making this video.

Thank you. As someone previously said, brilliant! The presentation is clear, methodical and on point. One just has to follow the instructions to get it done in no time. Life saving information for those of you who work with contracts and lots of other complex & long documents like bachelor/master/doctorate thesis.

Thank you so much for this video. Though I know this feature I never knew that this is how we give heading numbering. I struggled a lot with this. Now, this is not a problem for me. Thanks a lot for sharing this.

Just wow. You saved me days of work on a 300 pages long technical document which most likely would have looked like 💩 in the end!

OMG, I’ve been struggling with this multilevel list since last year when I started drafting my Standard Operating Procedure. Today, I came across your video and it’s amazing how easy it was to fix the numbering in my document. Love it! Thank you so much for the step by step explanation.

I studied and experimented for 4 hours based on another video but failed. This video made me succeed. Thank you so much.

😮😮😮OMG I think this is AMAZING! I just wasted 2 hrs trying to figure the format and style in a document! You managed to help me fix it! The navigation pane is the 💣!!

I have watched several videos on different formatting issues (especially since the upgrades) and this was by far the best one I found, thank you so so much for clarifying my frustration:)

Thanks. Been searching how to do this for a while and yours provides the best and easiest tutorial required to get the job done :)

hey your a life saver! Years fighting word the wrong way, thanks!

Thank you. The numbering scheme has always been one of the most unintuitive ways of defining multilevel lists, and about time it was revamped. The video make the functionality bearable.

Thank you so much. It clarifies a very messy, awkward, non-intuitive procedure that Microsoft should smooth out :). Great work!

i watched 4 or 5 videos before watching yours and i must say you made me understand the best out of all the other people who taught this. thank you very much!

Daniel Simpson 1 second ago Thanks so much for this. After formatting the styles for the levels I can see how quick it is. Numbering and indents in MS Word has been driving me bonkers for a long time!!!, it was one of the mysteries of the universe ;)

Thanks for being amazing. May the gods bless you and your family for generations

This was so clear and well-preseted. It has since saved me a lot of "go back and reformat" time. Many thanks!

Excellent. I have been looking at some videos which have significantly more views than this video, but this is by far the most excellent video I have seen on this topic. Well done!

Most useful and clearly explained video I could find

Thanks! 3 years later, but today your help is still great!

My first technical writing exercise was responding to an RFP on an old DEC main frame. It had an APP called WordPerfect. And it was... perfect at least in its multi-level numbering capability. Then, it was like a week later DEC went out of business and up sprouted MicroSoft. I struggled with this need in Word for years, usually reverting to manually setting up the document. Where my first MS Office purchases were Word95 and then Office 2000. They came close at times but never this comprehensive. Though not clearly intuitive. I always figured WordPerfect had patents on the process/technology preventing MS form a clear and intuitive implementation. Thank you very much for this much needed video.

You are a great teacher. Skillfully explained a complex process in very simple steps. Thank you.

This was extremely helpful. I truly appreciate the help.

very very very clever in handling the information in very easy way. thank you so much

Was wandering around and found this video tutorial useful after several years of try. Quite Something worth noting here.

I was frustrated with this numbering but you explained it well. Thank you very much for making my formatting easy.

Bravo! Applause! I have been struggling all day with numbered headings. Of course Microsoft had to make it difficult. Thank you for this. I guess the only thing I wouldn't do would be to backspace over the numbers in an Appendix heading. You explained things perfectly and I can't wait to go back to my document tomorrow and show it who's boss.

I am working on my thesis. And I worked hard to number my thesis headings. And I was not successful with that. Finally I have found what I was looking for. I am so thankful for you sequenced video. Much love

Thanks lots, your explanation is simple and to the point!!

Perfect. Very helpful. Succinct. Clear. Thank you Gina!

Thanks so much. I watched another two videos which were shorter, but yours provided a clear explanation that I can use.

You did a very nice job, SO MUCH BETTER THAN OTHER VIDEOS ON RU-vid I'VE WATCHED!,

Thank you so much for your response. I will give that a try. The tabs and indents are all over the place. The margins, when adjusted, cause a nightmare to the indents and tabs.... The list goes on. Some of these outlines are 25 pages long with three separate divisions. It gets rather complicated as you can imagine. A couple years ago I "fixed" one by starting at the top and deleting the outline levels one line at a time, deleting spaces until it was on the preceding line then hitting return (enter). Then I could indent or unindent and repeat with the next line. What a hassle! Thanks again for the reply.

God bless you. After watching this video I was able to apply it perfectly in my master thesis. Most Grateful.

Great video and very helpful. I have been searching for this tutorial to help me complete an operations manual. Thank you very much.

I’ve been looking for this video all night. Thanks now i can show up at work with tye solution!

Great video! The whole process is very convoluted and nonintuitive. I have read several written tutorials and couldn't get anywhere. This really cleared things up. Thank you.

I have been struggling with this process for about 3 months. Very simple, and easy to understand. Thank you very much!

So nice that you went the extra mile to show the TOC

Thank you Thank you Thank you for slowly and thoroughly explaining this complex formatting topic.

Fantastic. I’ve struggled with this so many times….

Thank you so much. I was struggling with that and it was delaying me from actually writing my thesis for which I have limited time anyway with my 12-month old son. Thank you!!!

Thankyou really enlighten my understanding on the struggles I have with inserting and aligning numbers with the content page

It is loud and clear. good content

Your tutorial is a great help! Your audio and speech is loud and clear, informative, and not boring at all. Timing

Great video! You elaborated all the right things perfectly and yet the tutorial was concise and easy to follow. 👍🏼👍🏼

HI, Been trying to figure this out for ages. Clearly described and very helpful. Thank you.

Has cleared the concept. Was always struggling while making project reports. Thank you. Will get enhanced readibility for the readers. Much Appreciated.

I tried many vedios but this is the most easiest and well explaining with clear voice...

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It helps a lot and more in details. Many videos have a million views without any valuable information. I wonder why your video not reached in view count which having such valuable information. Really great job. Please do more video is Microsoft word like 1. inserting only figure number inside the paragraph. 2. insert the first name and year from the reference section.

Thank you Dear! I couldn't find anyone else that gives me as you do! It is really my pleasure to give you more than Thumbs Up! Really Nice!

This was much simpler than I remembered.

Thank you. Your video clarified numbering and formatting.

Fabulous tutorial. It is really easy to get lost in the style area in Word. Thanks for providing clear instructions - you got me out of a jam with the user manual I am writing!

Well done, thank you. I spent hours trying to figure this out.

Thank you for this beautiful presentation; you were very patient and very easy to follow. I now have a better understanding of the multiple levels arrangement and about to apply it to an MOM I have been battling with for some time now. Merci beaucoup!

Great tutorial Gina - you've saved me hours of frustration! Thanks very much.

Thank you so much! I have ready many tutorials but your video made the numbering crystal clear!

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I knew enough to be dangerous and can number a list but never an outline like this. Amazing tool to now be able to use. And yes I know it's there but I could never figure it out, so it's not intuitive at all.

Thank you so much for making my life easy as I draft my SOP. ❤

Very nice. Short and informative. Thank you

Very good video. I learned a LOT in 12 minutes. You just saved me countless hours I routinely waste each year.

Oh thank you, Gina! I was tearing my hair out, oh hasn't Word changed! Excellent video, a great speed to follow and take in, excellent explanation and I'm totally on the same page as you about completing things by showing TOC as well. So glad I came across your video and channel :)

Thank you, madam, for giving such a wonderful tutorial about the formatting of technical documents, it helped me a lot. it reduces my effort and repetitive work.

This was very helpful today (even after 8 years lol). _Thanks!_

Woman, you just saved my life with video!!!!! Thaaaaanks a million!!!

You are awesome! This is a perfectly made video on numbering that will be extremely helpful to me as an admin. I love the way you explain everything in a manner that makes it easy to understand the first time.

Simply Superb !!!! Thanks for all the effort that you put in to explain the concepts.

Excellent tutorial! Thank you sooo much for sharing.

Awesome tutorial!! I have been here to find ways making heading navigation... and that's it. Tq

Wow, where have you been all my life? That video was just about as good as it gets! Clear, concise, and very well organized! Thank you so much! I am looking forward to viewing some of your other material! Have a great day.