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Legal numbering was made available to Lawmaker with the release of version 15.0 in August 2023. It was developed for Court Rules, but is available in an type of SI or Bill, across jurisdictions.
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As with any new feature, we very much welcome feedback to help us iron out any issues or improve the feature via the https://lawmaker.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/1 |
To use legal numbering,
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Change to Legal Numbering
Click on your first Number and enter number and update the number to the correct format for your first number, ie: 1.1.insert image
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Next, Lock the number by, one of the following actions:
Right-clicking on the number and selecting Lock/Unlock Number
Keyboard shortcut?
Tools menu
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From the Tools menu, select Lock/Unlock Number
More information on locking can be found here - Locking and unlocking numbers
Then continue with your SI/Bill as normal. Lawmaker will create the right numbering structure, and also renumber using the right structure.
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There is currently a bug, if you copy court rules numbering from another source, eg: Word or legislation.gov.uk. Lawmaker will insert any numbering after the first full stop, as text into the paragraph. You can work around this by simply deleting the additional characters. |