Snapnumbers™ is a powerful, flexible, and easy to use alternative to Word's built in paragraph numbering system. If you have ever lost an afternoon wrestling with automatic paragraph numbers in a Word document, then Snapnumbers™ is your answer. I'll create an outline in this document using Snapnumbers. The first step is to choose a numbering scheme for a document. There are several predefined schemes to choose from. I'll go with the default one here which is just a standard Harvard outline.

Once the scheme has been chosen, inserting the number is a matter of positioning your cursor where you want a number and then clicking a level number from the top menu. Here I want a level one number, so I click level one, and then I type my heading. When I press enter, the program does not assume I want another number. In fact, it makes no assumptions at all. It's all up to me. I'm in complete control. I'll take my cursor back to the left margin and put in a level two number for my second level heading.

And here I want a level three number for my third level heading. Let's put in one more level three number so you can see that the numbers increment appropriately. And of course if I were to delete some paragraphs, paste in some paragraphs, all of the numbers update themselves automatically in real time to exactly what they should be. Because these automatic numbers are characters rather than formatting I can treat them just as I do other characters.

I can copy them, paste them, underline them. Here I'll paste a number that I've copied over and over again. I can even embed several numbers within a single paragraph. Here I'll put in a level five number, another level five number, another level five number.

I can tab them across a page without affecting them.

I can just do anything with these character based numbers that I could with ordinary text which makes them super flexible, super predictable, and super manageable.

Once you've selected a numbering scheme and applied it to a document, you can go back and alter it at any time. Perhaps I changed my mind here and instead of using that Harvard outline scheme, I want to go with a different numbering scheme. I'll click Okay.

And now I have the word article associated with each level one number and legal numbering style throughout the document. If none of the numbering schemes on the menu appeal to you, you can customize your own scheme at every level using all the options available.

Once Snapnumbers have been applied to a document it's also a breeze to generate a table of contents.

Here I've put my cursor up at the top of the document where I want the table of contents to appear, click generate table of contents. I'm gonna choose to use half inch tabs and indents rather than words default, and click the generate button.

Snapnumbers is fully compatible with TheFormTool® and with Doxserá®.

I know because I created all three of them.