The following steps will use the example of creating a test question. In such a case, you can type the questions and answers for the test without numbering or indenting them. After you have finished typing, you can apply the multilevel list numbering. • Select the text you want to apply multilevel numbering to EXAMPLE: Select the text of the test questions and answers. • From the Format menu, select Bullets and Numbering. The Bullets and Numbering dialog box appears.

First heading 1.1. First sub-heading 1.2. Second sub-heading 2. Second heading. I do know that there is the numbering option if I modify the headings styles BUT it doesn’t work the way it should! Word does add the numbers automatically but the above headlines are unfortunately numbered like this. As for Word 2010, maybe Microsoft. If reapplying the '1 Heading 1 1.1 Heading 2 1.1.1 Heading 3' format is all that you want to do, it can be done more easily in Word 2007/2010: Place the insertion point in the first Heading 1 paragraph. Find device using mac address.

• On the Home tab, move the pointer over different headings in the Styles gallery. Notice as you pause over each style, your text will change so you can see how it will look in your document. Click the heading style you want to use. If you don't see the style that you want, click the More button to expand the gallery. Tip: You can change the font and formatting of a heading style. Just select the heading text you want to customize, modify its styles the way you want, and then on the Home tab, in the Styles group, right-click the heading style that you customized and click Update Heading to Match Selection. Every time you apply that heading style in your document, the heading style will include your customizations.

To make Word think you’re starting a list, do the following: • Type some text and then press Return or Enter. • Type either of the following: 1 followed by a period, a space, and some text. An asterisk (*) followed by a space and some text. • Press Return or Enter.

As in the attached screenshot image, my 4th level heading is inexplicably a block of solid black. This only appeared after sending the Word doc file as an Outlook attachment (!) also on the same Mac running El Capitan. The formatting appears thus only for 4th level numbering - unfortunately I need the numbering to be linked to the heading style and so far the only way I found to get the numbers back is to change numbering / list style for that heading. • This was not added into the style as background/fill/highlight/etc. • It is clearly in the style as the screenshot shows, not in the doc content. Anyone know where this glitch originates and how to revert?

• Add the delimiter between the incrementing number and either the corresponding text or the next number. I always just use the period ‘.’ • (Optional, but recommended.) Click on “Set for all Levels.” Otherwise, the headings will march rightward. • In the resulting window, set “Additional indent for each level” to 0.

Stay tuned Word's Multilevel List feature works nicely with the built-in heading styles. However, you can get the same effect working with custom styles.

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Then, click the Multilevel List option and choose an option ( Figure B). As you can see in Figure C, two quick clicks and you're done! Figure B Choose one of the built-in multilevel options from the gallery.

If you need subsections numbered (for example, 2.1, 2.2, 2.12, etc.) as well, then choose the list the 1 Heading 1; 1.1 Heading 2, etc. Option (right side, middle row). Note that doing this once sets the formatting for all heading levels. • Click OK when you are finished. • If you typed in the text “Chapter #”, and now it is duplicating your efforts, delete the text you typed and leave the automatically generated chapter number. • To follow the automatically generated chapter number with the title of your chapter on a new line, click just before the text of your title, hold down the Shift key on the keyboard, and then press the Enter key.

These headers aren't using Word's built in Style options, as the content was copy-pasted directly from. Using those style options changes the document's appearance and text formatting, so I'm looking for another possible option. How can I change header levels in Microsoft Word 2010 without changing the document's font formatting? The answer by @endrju shows how to change a single paragraph. If you have a number of paragraphs to correct, the following approach may be faster – it allows you to demote or promote many paragraphs at the same time without changing the formatting. This works on Word 2013, and I’d expect it to work on other versions.