Hello! I have used heading styles to organize chapters in my document. Heading 1 is for chapters, Heading 2 is for sub-sections, and so on. I have run into a problem where I cannot seem to get the first proper chapter to be called Chapter 1. It is the first Heading 1 style in the document, but it always ends up being called chapter 2. There are Heading 2 sections that appear before it, and I am only able to get the very first Heading 2 to be called chapter 1. It seems like very first Heading 2 section is stealing the right to the chapter 1, but I do not know how to make it give it up. Please help me if you know how to get chapter numbering to start at the right place!
Heading 2 are not “stealing” the right to chapter 1. Heading n styles are structured into a hierarchy through an internal list style which provides numbering. This numbering sequence has 10 levels. If you start at any level other than 1, the “missing” numbers are automatically initialised to 1.
In other words, you start at level 2. Its level is 1.1.(1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.), even if you display only the last part. When you insert a Heading 1, this causes incrementation of level one and reset of all levels to 2.(1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.). What is shown between the parentheses is the higher level series which can’t be displayed (the sequence is clipped at the heading level).
What you experience is what is expected. Your layout is faulty because you misuse list/heading numbering.
However, since aesthetic tastes are as numerous as users, providing you only display the level number, excluding shallower levels (e.g. your Heading 2 are numbered 1. 2. 3. and not 1.1. 1.2. 1.3), you can tweak numbering.
Heading numbering is just a special list. Apply the procedure to reset numbering:
- put the cursor on the heading you want to force to 1
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Format>Lists>Restart Numbering
Note this may prove confusing to your readers.
Thank you very much for the information! I suppose I should use Heading 1 from the beginning. I would like to restructure the document as the following:
[Heading 1] Preface
[Heading 1] Table of Contents
[Heading 1] List of Tables
[Heading 1] List of Figures
[Heading 1] Chapter 1
[Figure] Figure 1.1
How can I achieve the figure numbering to be at 1.1 when it is technically at the 5th chapter? I want the document to be structured properly as the software is intended to work.
Your scheme has a flaw in your use of Heading 1: you create an egg-and-chicken problem regarding the TOC.
Heading 1 must be used only in relation with “numbered chapters” (because it is associated with a numbering sequence). Therefore, your scheme should be:
[Heading 1] Preface
[Contents Heading] Table of Contents
[Table Index Heading] List of Tables
[Figure Index Heading] List of Figures
[Heading 1] Chapter 1
[Figure] Figure 1.1
Styles xxx [Index] Heading are applied by default when the tables are created. With these styles, “TOC”, “List of xxx” are not entered into the TOC, which is the traditional usage.
With the above configuration, “Preface” is listed in the TOC. If this is what you want, just suppress the chapter number (if you have so configured Tools>Heading Numbering) by pressing Bksp at beginning of “Preface”.
If you don’t want “Preface” in the TOC, replace [Heading 1] Preface by [My Heading 1] Preface where My Heading 1 is a “clone” of Heading 1. You create such a clone by right-clicking on the style name in the sidepane and New. Just modify the Outline level in Outline & List tab of the style configuration to assign it to [None]. Don’t change other attributes so that it remains an exact typographic duplicate and any modification you make in Heading 1 also propagates to My Heading 1.
If you want “List of xxx” in the TOC, play with TOC configuration dialog. Tick Additional styles, press Assign styles and add xxx [Index] Heading to level 1.
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Thanks. This didn’t apply in my case but I appreciate the help!