4 digit paragraph enumeration

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To the best of my knowledge, unfortunately no.

You can insert square brackets with Before and After attributes in Options tab of a list style but you can't force a fixed number of digits.

There is a "workaround" you can set up. I just did a "proof of concept" test, and it worked pretty well.

It isn't absolutely ideal, in that it involves automating "manual" padding, but within certain constraints, it could be a real time-saver.

I'll outline the process, and if OP has sufficient interest, I could fill this out in a proper step-by-step. Here are the concepts:

1. Define a user variable field of the type "number range".
2. Assign this to Autotext.
3. Set up a macro with the following key strokes: [00<autotext-insert>]· (where · is a space, and <autotext-insert> triggers the input of your number-range user-variable, set up in #1).
4. Assign the macro to a "hotkey" combination of your choice.

Done.

Now, a single key input will produce a string like [0032]· in which the 32 bit will auto-update in editing to reflect new counters. It might sound a bit clunky, but once set up, works really quite well.

Obviously this test assumes that most paragraphs only need padding with two zero's. There are only ever going to be nine (or ten, if [0000] is used) where three zero's are needed. One could easily set up a "two-pad" hotkey for 10-99, and "one-pad" hotkey for paragaphs numbering 100-999.