Re: How put numbers inside margin?

From: Daiya Mitchell (daiyaNOSPAM_at_mvps.org.INVALID)
Date: 12/09/04 

Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 21:41:53 -0800

If you are putting them randomly, not attached to a line or the beginning of
a paragraph, then you can use the text box anchored in the header method,
although it requires more manual work, and just as much work to make changes
later. (For Line numbering or paragraph numbering, once you set it up, you
can probably also get Word to update it if something changes, but set up
might be tricker).

These numbers are part of the header/footer and thus will not show in Normal
View and will be slightly faded out in Page Layout, just like any
header/footer text.

Type your main text. View Headers/Footers. Expand Window size so you can
see margins, if necessary. With cursor in header or footer, click Insert |
Text box. Click in the margin where you want your number, the cursor will
turn into a plus, drag the plus to the size of the text box you need to fit
the number. Type in it. Right-click or control click on the edge of the
text box, select Format Text Box..., and change Line: Color: to No Line if
you don't want a border. Repeat as necessary. If you select the text box,
you can use the arrow keys to nudge its location.

A hanging indent is where all lines except the first are indented under the
first line, the opposite pattern to a regular paragraph. Suzanne's post
refers to the triangles on the ruler at the top of the page, which can be
dragged around to control margins.

DM

On 12/8/04 7:57 PM, "kevs" wrote:

> I want to place a number in the left margin, whenever I want it to appear.
> Not necessarily at beginning of each new paragraph. Is this possible?
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> I think Suzanne was trying to help, but barely understood a word,
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> " set the first line indent so it hangs"
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> Don't understand that
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> "move top left margin triangle"
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> Don't understand that either.
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> "then pull the preset tab".....
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> Don't understand that.
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> If anyone can really do this for the layman.... Thanks.
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