Changing Hard-Typed Numbers to Autonumbering

You might encounter hard-typed numbers in your converted document rather than autonumbers. If autonumbering was used in Microsoft Word, the autonumbering stays intact once the document’s in FrameMaker. You can simply apply the correct autonumbering paragraph tag in FrameMaker and it takes care of itself.

If not, you end up with hard-typed numbering along with the autonumber after you apply the correct FrameMaker paragraph tags (that contain autonumbering).

Winning Number Combinations

As usual, you can fix this annoying problem in many ways. You can manually delete all the hard-typed numbers and accompanying tabs or spaces, one at a time. Or, you can delete the hard-typed numbers in under a minute ...

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