Line Numbering
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Line Numbering comes in handy for interviews, so you could say: “See interview line 78”. The stumbling block here is: How do you get only the interview text numbered but not the rest? Also, you don’t want a number for every single line, but probably only for every third line. Lastly, you might possibly want numbering to restart from 1 at the beginning of each separate interview. Here is how to go about it:
- change the Paragraph Style of Default by right clicking on it and choosing Modify; go to the tab Outline & Numbering and untick the box Include this paragraph in line numbering; this ensures that as a general rule you don’t want lines to be numbered
- create a new Paragraph Style by right clicking on your Body Text Style and name it “Interview”; modify your new style by going to the tab Outline & Numbering and ticking the box Include this paragraph in line numbering; this ensures that only lines in your “Interview” Style paragraphs get numbered
- lastly go to Menu Tools › Line Numbering and tick the box Show numbering; here you can also change the Interval from 3 to 5 lines, untick the box Blank lines; as from now the programme has the general permission to number lines, but only for those styles where numbering is enabled
- mark the interview passages and double-click on the menu entry “Interview” to apply this style to your interviews: now just the lines of your interview passages will get numbered
- in case you have several interviews, you would very probably want each one to begin line numbering at 1; for this, just right click on the first paragraph of each of your separate interviews and choose the menu Paragraph (not Edit Paragraph Style!), go to the tab Outline & Numbering and tick the box Restart at this paragraph
