Line numbers in word document how to#

How to add line numbers to a Word document – the correct way (Word 2007, Word 2010 and Word 2013) The numbers push the lines across and they run over onto the next line all possibility of right justification is lost and heaven help you if you want to insert or delete any text once you’ve done it! Then you would highlight the whole text and add numbered bullets. Well, to do this you would have to put a return at the end of each line to make it into a new line. If you find the need to add line numbers, it’s kind of natural that you might think – oh, I’ll just make the whole document into a numbered list. How NOT to add line numbers to a Word document

So these are all reasons for adding line numbers to a Word document. Transcriptions will sometimes have line numbers, if they’re going to be discussed in detail, and we can probably all recall from our dim and distant pasts working on critiques of poems and plays which had 5, 10, 15 etc. Presumably they wanted to be able to refer to particular line numbers in their criticism of the piece. I was inspired to write this post after my colleague Katharine O’Moore Klopf mentioned that she’d been asked to do this by the editors of a journal for which she was editing an article. Why do I need to add line numbers to a Word document? Why would you want to do that? Read on and find out! This works for Word 2007, Word 2010 and Word 2013. This article explains the correct – and incorrect – way to add line numbers to a Word document.

Line numbers in word document