See Numbering for more on how provisions are numbered when they are inserted.
Schedule paragraphs will convert to schedule sub-paragraphs when you insert another schedule subparagraph after the schedule paragraph’s content
(Bills only) Sections will default to having a subsection in them when first inserted. You can use ‘promote’ (ALT + [) to promote it into section/content.
New provisions are inserted after the element that your cursor is in. To insert a provision before the first provision in the series, it is sometimes useful to ‘view block tags’ (from Document > Preferences… in the toolbar menu) and place the cursor before the starting tag of the first provision in the series. From here you can use the CCA to insert the provision at the beginning of the series
(SI/SSIs only) When inserting a second schedule, the system will automatically insert the ‘SCHEDULES’ heading before the first Schedules.
(SI/SSIs only) Regulation (or Articles etc.) text will convert to Sub-paragraph text if you insert a Sub-paragraph (1) after it or even before you have added any content. And vice versa, when you delete the penultimate sub-paragraph, the remaining sub-paragraph will automatically convert into plain Regulation (or Article etc.) text.
The combined numbering format used by SI/SSIs will happen automatically when you insert your child provision into the parent e.g. inserting a sub-paragraph (i) into the first paragraph (a) – will become: (a) (i) sub-paragraph text here.
(UK Bills only) to insert a ‘note’ at the top of the bill e.g. for Money bill rubrics, place your cursor in the ‘preface’ element. To do this either
Place cursor at the beginning of the Stage version rubric in blue writing at the top of the bill and use left arrow to move cursor through XML tags until it is in ‘Preface’ element (see the breadcrumbs to check)
Go to “Document > Preferences” in the upper toolbar menu and select “Block tags” in the dialogue box that appears. This will present XML tags in the Editor View so that you can place your cursor directly after the “Preface” element
When you have your cursor in the Preface element, click ‘Enter’ and select ‘Note’ (don’t forget to return to ‘No tag’ view from ‘Document > Preferences’ when you have finished).
It is possible to insert bullet lists into your documents (bills & SIs). If you right-click on the bullet point and select "Update List Style" you can change the bullet point to an em-dash list or no bullet point.
