In this video, learn how to use field codes to automatically have numbers go up in value by 1, sequentially, beginning with a number of your choosing.
- [Instructor] At some point you may be…creating a document here in Microsoft Word…where it would be nice if items…were numbered sequentially and automatically…so you didn't have to do it.…That's what we're going to explore using fields…in this week's Word tip.…We're gonna do it with this file, Tickets079,…it's in your exercise files, and you can see,…I've just started my first ticket…with a ticket number area.…This is a table, I'm just using banded rows,…and I'm eventually going to copy…what's in this one cell to the other green cells…in this table, but before we do,…we're gonna set it up for that…automatic sequential numbering.…
So with your cursor flashing after the colon,…next to ticket number, we'll go up to insert,…then we'll go over to the text group…here on the ribbon, click the quick parts drop down,…and choose field.…Now the field we want is a numbering field,…so let's change the category here…by clicking the drop down, to numbering.…Next, we want sequential numbering,…that's the last option here, seq,…
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