Training module (SI): Renumbering
In this module, you will learn how to use Lawmaker’s renumbering functions to renumber your document as you draft and reorganise it.
Tutorial
As you work on your document, adding new provisions and moving them around, it’s likely that the numbering of your document will become disordered or alphanumeric.
For example, if you add a new regulation between regulations 5. and 6., it will be numbered 5A. by default, but you may want it to become regulation 6. and for 6. to become 7., and so on.
Renumbering
Renumbering your document is simple in Lawmaker. Just do the following:
Place your cursor in the provision you want to renumber (or anywhere in the body of the document, if you want to renumber the whole document);
Do one of the following:
Click on the Renumber icon in the toolbar,
Right-click in the Editor or Structure View and select Renumber,
Press keyboard short-cut Alt+n;
In the pop-up window, select to renumber either the Current provision or the Whole document as desired.
You can also select to Update x-refs, which will update all references in the document after the renumber. See Training module (SI): References for training on this.
Note that content within quoted structures (i.e., long textual amendments - see Training module (SI): Drafting long textual amendments with Quoted Structure ) will not be included in a renumbering of the whole document.
To renumber content in a quoted structure, place your cursor within it, and then follow the steps above.
Automatic renumbering
Lawmaker has an ‘auto-renumber’ function that you can toggle on and off using Tools > Turn on / off Automatic renumbering.
In short, if auto-renumbering is on, then lower-level provisions will be automatically renumbered if you add a new provision or move them around.
If it is off, then new provisions will be given letters to distinguish them, whilst maintaining the same numbering for the remaining sequence. E.g., if you move paragraph (c) up so it is between paragraphs (a) and (b), it will obtain the number (aa), whilst (a) and (b) will be unchanged.
See Further information below if you want more detail on this.
Locking provisions
Sometimes you may not want provisions to be renumbered when you run a renumbering operation. For example, if, for whatever reason, you have edited a number to change the content, you don’t want this to revert to its previous form when you renumber the document.
To avoid this, you can ‘lock’ numbers. to do this, place your cursor in the number that you want to lock (or unlock) and either:
Use keyboard short-cut Alt + l,
Right-click and select Lock/Unlock Number from the context menu, or
From the upper tool bar, select Tools > Lock/Unlock Number.
The locked number will have a dotted-lined box around it.
Note that all subsequent numbers will be renumbered sequentially following the ‘locked’ number. So if you have locked the number of regulation 5., then renumber the document, the next regulation will be numbered 6., then 7., and so on.
The first number in a quoted structure will be locked by default (so that it doesn’t reset to, e.g., 1. or (a) when you renumber the content of the quoted structure).
Video
Please watch the following sections of the video linked below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pApXcIArhGk
Further information
Numbering - includes information on auto-renumbering
Exercises
Getting started
Before you start the exercises, you will need a document ready and open in the Editor.
If you already have a document ready, you can move on to the exercises below.
If you don’t have a document ready, follow the steps below.
Exercise 1 - Reorder provisions and renumber them
In your document, swap the positions of Regulations 2 and 3. Then, renumber them.
Exercise 2 - Using locks whilst renumbering
Insert a new Regulation after numbered 3A. Then renumber the document without losing the 3A or changing the subsequent numbering (4., 5. etc.).