Numbering Paragraphs Automatically

You cannot use this feature within Interviews.

You can add placeholder fields for other expressions that supply automatic paragraph numbering to lists of answers in your HotDocs template.

During document assembly, HotDocs passes paragraph numbering values into an assembled document as text, rather than as number codes. This means that if your template users add or delete a paragraph in the assembled document, the remaining paragraph numbering does not adjust automatically. If it is important to ensure that the paragraph numbering adjusts to any changes made to an assembled document, you should use Microsoft Word's automatic numbering, rather than this HotDocs feature.

To create automatic paragraph numbering

1. Open a template.
2. Select the text you want to replace, or position the cursor where you want to add a placeholder field.
3. In the HotDocs Field Editor, from the Action list, select Add a placeholder.
4. From the Placeholder Type list, select Other Expression.
5. In the Other Expression field type PN followed by a number representing the paragraph indentation level (from 1–9).

You must manually indent any paragraphs you want indented. Merely typing PN2 in the Expression field, for example, does not indent that paragraph, it merely restarts the numbering at 1, which is the behavior expected when you begin numbering on a new paragraph indentation level.
You can, however, use a SET instruction to customize HotDocs paragraph numbering. For example, if you create a computation with a script, SET PN1 TO 10, you can automatically start the paragraph numbering at 10 (you must put the computation field in front of the PN field).

6. Copy and paste this PN field at the front of every paragraph of each indentation level you create.