Numbering Lines

Many legal documents use the formatting convention of numbering every line of text to make it easier for multiple parties to refer to very specific text in a longer document in the context of their discussions. Other types of documents that sometimes use this convention are movie and television scripts. You can have Word automatically number each line of text within a document.

Number Each Line in a Document Quickly

Image If you want to show or hide line numbers to only selected text, select the text you want.

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