Auto-numbering using field code - How?

Posted by Anonymous March 1, 2010 - 3:58pm

Hi:

I would like to create a document numbering that help me automatically increase the number. I have been using the SEQ field to do so. However, I want the numbering prefixed with the header paragraph's number. For example:

1. Intro
..... some text...
2. some Other header
.... some more text
3. cases
3.1 Tiger
case # 3.1.1 Color
.. some more text.....

case # 3.1.2 Taste
.. some more text.....

case # 3.1.3 weight
.. some more text.....

3.2 Elephant
case # 3.2.1 Weight
case # 3.2.2 Color
....

I want to create numbering that will generate the case numbers, and reset to suffix 1, using the prefix (3.1, 3.2 etc.). Note that 1, 2, 3, 3.1, 3.2 are of format Heading1, Heading 2 etc.

So far, with the SEQ field code, I could only generate something like this:

1. Intro
..... some text...
2. some Other header
.... some more text
3. cases
3.1 Tiger
case # 1 Color
.. some more text.....

case # 2 Taste
.. some more text.....

case # 3 weight
.. some more text.....

3.2 Elephant
case # 4 Weight
case # 5 Color
....

I hope this is not too confusing.

Thanks.

Norman