Some Background on Autonumbering

Before I discuss autonumbering with some real examples and how-to’s, here’s some background information on the subject. If you prefer to jump right into autonumber how-to’s, skip to the section “Creating a Numbered List.”

Back to Basics

Use Format > Paragraphs > Designer to access Paragraph Designer (or use the keyboard shortcut Control-M).

Numbering in FrameMaker is one of six sets of paragraph properties, which you can specify in the Paragraph Designer. After numbering is set up in the Paragraph Designer as part of a paragraph tag, you can simply put it into action by applying that paragraph tag to a particular paragraph within your document. The numbering automatically increases by 1 for each successive paragraph ...

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