Automatic Heading Numbering in ZohoWriter

Automatic Heading Numbering in ZohoWriter

While creating user guides, technical documentation or hierarchical headings in legal documents, the need to have numbered headings to generate a structured TOC becomes important. Manually entering the numbers for every heading is simply tedious. To create structured documents, you can use two types of heading lists available in Zoho Writer.

List Style Numbering

This type of numbering has roman numbers such as I, II, III... for first level headings and A, B, C for the second level and so on.


Legal Style Numbering

This is the most popular style of numbering that starts with 1, 2, 3 for first level headings and 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 for each sub-section and so on. Each time higher level heading is added, the lower level number starts from the beginning.


To create multi-level lists

On the Home tab, click the numbered list  icon, and select  for legal style numbering, or click  for list style numbering for your headings.

To remove multi-level lists

To convert a multi-level list to an ordinary list, on the Home tab, click the  numbered list icon and select  


Try it out and let us know your feedback.



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