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Position Line Numbers in your MS Word Documents

Thursday, September 1st, 2011

I am assuming you know how to add line numbers to your document because I have covered that in the Word Bytes Newsletter.

But did you know that you can modify the distance your line numbers are from the text in your document?

Follow the steps below to learn how:

  1. Display the Page Layout tab of your Ribbon.
  2. In the Page Setup group, click the Line Numbers tool.
  3. Select Line Number Options to display the Layout tab of the Page Setup dialog box.
  4. Click on the Line Numbers button to display the Line Numbers dialog box.
  5. Adjust the measurement in the From Text box to indicate the distance the line numbers should appear from your text.
  6. Click on OK to close the Line Numbers dialog box.

That’s all there is to it!

Click on OK to close the Page Setup dialog box.

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How Do I Make Page Numbers Appear as Text in MS Word?

Monday, November 24th, 2008

One of my subcribers recently asked me how the page numbers appear in the footer of her document as text, rather than as numerals.

It took some research, but I found the answer for her.  If you too have ever needed or wanted your page numbers to appear as text in your document, follow the steps below to learn:

  • Click on View | Headers and Footers.
  • Once your are in either your Header or Footer:
  • Click CTRL + F9 to insert field braces { }. Do not type them in manually, as it will not work.
  • Key in:
  •  page \*cardtext
  • between the braces.
  • Click on F9 to hide the field code and update the field.

The word “card” in cardtext is an abbreviation of cardinal. Cardinal numbers are the ones we use for counting (i.e. 1, 2, 3), while ordinal numbers indicate the order in a sequence (i.e. 1st, 2nd, 3rd). If you used \*ordtext as a field switch, you would get first, second, third, etc.

If you thought this tip was especially helpful, you can find a whole lot more just like it in my e-Book, which can be found here.

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