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Microsoft Word 2007 – Automaticly Add Heading Numbers

As I put the finishing touches to my dissertation I found it surprisingly difficult to auto generate heading numbers in Word.

So the process is as such:

1. Select the right most listing button, named 'Multilevel List' (just to the right of standard Bullet and Numbering buttons)
2. At the bottom of the popup, select 'Define New Multilevel List...'
3. At the next popup, click the 'More > >' button at the bottom left
4. At the top of the screen the "1.----------" is automatically selected and bold, now select the list 'Link level to style:" and select 'Heading 1'
5. Now click at the top of the screen the "1.1------------", it will go bold when selected, now do the same as before and in 'Link level to style:" select 'Heading 2'
6. Now follow the same pattern for Heading 3 and any more levels you may have.
7. Select OK
8. Success!