Office & productivity software: How to convert automatic numbering to normal text in Word?
How to convert automatic numbering to normal text in Word?
by ctronvig - 1/13/08 7:27 PMI have a Word document with a lot of automatic numbering, and I'd like to covert all the numbers to regular text. So, how would you do that in Word? If not directly in Word, could you convert the Word doc to some other format that would retain the general formatting and the numbers but forget about the automatic numbering thing?
Thanks for any help,
Drew
Try...
by Papa Echo - 1/13/08 9:43 PM In reply to: How to convert automatic numbering to normal text in Word? by ctronvig...Tools>Auto Correct Options>Auto Format As You Type.
Under “Apply As You Type", uncheck “Automatic Numbered List”.
Check or uncheck others as you like. Stay around there. You may find it interesting to find Word's many, plenty options!
Re: converting automatic to manual numbering.
by Kees Bakker
- 1/14/08 1:03 AM
In reply to: How to convert automatic numbering to normal text in Word? by ctronvig
Select the automatically numbered block. Unclick the icon on the toolbar. Then edit manually.
Lot of work when lot of text. Writing a macro isn't very easy either, I'm afraid.
Kees
Re: converting automatic to manual numbering
by ctronvig - 1/14/08 12:40 PM In reply to: Re: converting automatic to manual numbering. by Kees Bakker
Yeah, at this point I'm just typing in numbers to match the automatic numbers and then turning off numbering. Is there a way, in a macro, to actually pick up the automatically generated number for a particular paragraph?
Thanks,
Drew
I think there is.
by Kees Bakker - 1/14/08 12:55 PM
In reply to: Re: converting automatic to manual numbering by ctronvig
But I can't tell you the exact VBA-code (which method or property of which object).
Kees
I'll look it up
by ctronvig - 1/14/08 1:07 PM In reply to: I think there is. by Kees Bakker
Do you have some idea of what term I would search for to find that?
Thanks,
Drew
This link might be a good starting point.
by Kees Bakker - 1/14/08 1:17 PM
In reply to: I'll look it up by ctronvig
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Numbering/ListRestartFromVBA.htm
Kees
(NT) Excellent, Thanks
by ctronvig - 1/14/08 1:25 PM In reply to: This link might be a good starting point. by Kees Bakker
Cut and paste should do the trick
by carlvincent - 1/18/08 12:30 PM In reply to: How to convert automatic numbering to normal text in Word? by ctronvigTry this: select the paragraphs you want to convert, cut, then paste special as unformatted text.
Solution for converting automatic numbering to text in Word
by vanCarnisse - 2/17/09 4:31 PM In reply to: How to convert automatic numbering to normal text in Word? by ctronvigThis thread is more then a year old, but maybe someone will find this posting still.
We had the same problem with unwanted automatic paragraph numbering in Word. Especially with scanned text and OCR it's a nuisance.
See this nice little addin:
http://www.editorium.com/listfixer.htm.
It costs $29,50 or so. It works and even gives several options.
How to convert automatic numbering to normal text in Word?
by wj shack - 6/14/09 4:36 PM In reply to: How to convert automatic numbering to normal text in Word? by ctronvigThis macro does this.
Sub Auto_Format_convert_list_numbers()
'
' convert_list_numbers Macro
' Macro created 10/8/08 by WJ Shack
'
ActiveDocument.ConvertNumbersToText
End Sub
Thanks
by PeterCoulson - 7/24/09 10:35 AM In reply to: How to convert automatic numbering to normal text in Word? by wj shackThis was very helpful, saved tons of time.
Many thanks for keeping this old thread going 
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