2007 Microsoft® Office System Inside Out

Adding and Controlling Line Numbers

If you’re working on a document that requires line numbering, such as a legal document or formal literature piece, line numbers can serve as useful references. Line numbers appear in the margin next to each line in a document. They enable quick references to specific lines in a document.

To add line numbers, you can select an option from Line Numbers on the Page Layout tab or choose settings from the Line Numbers dialog box, which can be accessed from the Layout tab in the Page Setup dialog box. Figure 8-11 shows both the Line Numbers options and the Line Numbers dialog box. Using these tools, you can choose whether to number the lines of an entire document continuously, restart numbering on each page, restart ...