I was using Microsoft Word 2003 to put together a manuscript to study. Part of this includes having line numbers along the left side, starting with 5 and counting up in increments of 5. I figured out how to do line numbers easily enough: just go to File -> Page Setup -> Layout -> Apply to: [if you want to apply it to a certain section] -> Line Numbers…
But this made the line numbers appear in Times New Roman, while the rest of my document was all in Trebuchet MS. This didn’t match up. I performed several Google searches, and couldn’t find my answer until I luckily stumbled into an article called Line Number Font Doesn’t Follow Default Paragraph Font. It’s for older versions of Word, but it got me started in heading the right direction. The reason Line Numbers have their own font is that they have their own style. This is keep the document professional: the line numbers should remain constant even as the paragraph styling changes.
I found that there’s a little “Styles and Formatting” button immediately left of the drop-down menu that shows your currently-active style. Click that, and you get a list of formatting definitions. Ta-da: Line Number is in that list! Hit the dropdown, choose Modify…, and you’ll be good to go.
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Just wanted to tell you THANK YOU! It helped!
That Styles and Formatting sidebar is a very useful part of Word 2003, isn’t it? Don’t forget that you can adjust it to see “formatting in use” (for the current document) or “all styles”, using the dropdown menu at the bottom of it. The Line Number Style will be listed in “All Styles”.
Awesome! Totally works! Thank you so much!!
Thanks so much for this info…I was having trouble figuring out how to format line numbers. I work with people with disabilities, low vision/blind included, and one of the accommodations is that the font on documents has to be large enough and easy enough to read. Thanks again!
Thanks for this, Elliot.