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Try a different font here, paste in some content from a colleague or a website. Change the heading size. Change the color. Change the spacing. Pretty soon, you've got layers and layers of formatting. You've formatted yourself into a corner.Sometimes, you just want to clear it all away and start with a clean slate.Our solution? Ctrl+Spacebar. You can clear out all those layers of formatting. Just select the part of the document that you want to clear, or press Ctrl+A to select the whole thing, and then hold down the Ctrl key while you press the spacebar.You can also select the part of your document, or all of it, and then click Clear Formatting on the ribbon.
Now, you're ready to start fresh.Starting fresh does often mean starting over. To avoid a formatting frenzy in the future, use styles and style sets. That way, you can make changes to all your first-level headings or all your text at once and keep your content consistent. And if you're working on the document with other people, you can restrict the formatting options, so that only the styles and formatting you want are available to them.
-- Joannie Stangeland
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I am new to Word 2010. I was very familiar with 2003 and 2007 and am interested to know what happened to the numbering feature, within styles, that enabled one to automatically number headers and subheaders (e.g., if I wanted to create Heading 1, followed by Heading 2, Heading 3, etc.). There used to be a numbering option, when one modified a style, that one could select to cause headings and subheadings to automatically renumber. I'm finding documents in 2010 that are numbering as follows, Section 1, subsection a, subsection b, Section 1, sub c, sub d, Section 1, sub e, sub f, etc. I used to be able to modify styles to cause headings and subheadings to automatically renumber (when preceded by a prior or superior heading level), but the numbering option has been changed within modify styles. Can anyone tell me how to do this in Word 2010?
Dear Steve,
If you click the Multilevel List button (in the Paragraph group on the Home tab) and click the multilevel list style that comes closest to what you want, you can then click the Multilevel List button again and click Define New Multilevel List. That opens a dialog box where you can adjust each level (for each heading level). You could click Define New Multilevel List right away, but I find it's easier to have Word enter some of the formatting and then I just have to make minor adjustments.
-- Joannie
Joanie,
Thanks for your message. You definitely led me to the option screen I recall from 2003/2007, but for some reason, my document is still numbering 1, a, b, 2, c, d, 3, e, f, . . . I've set the formatting to restart numbering after the prior level, but it's not changing the number in my existing document. Any other thoughts? I've spent far too long trying to figure this out. Thanks for your help.
Steve
Joannie,
Apologies for incorrectly spelling your name!
Steve, no worries about the name!
Just to be sure I understand, can you list the numbering that you're trying to achieve? It might be in your first comment, but it's Friday and I'm not sure I'm getting it.
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