As you draft your document by moving, deleting and inserting provisions the numbering of your document can get out of order and will need renumbering. Most legislative provisions have numbers. Lawmaker generally assigns a number to a provision as soon as you insert it. It does the same when you paste provisions or move them around in the Structure View.
Lawmaker has two different numbering modes which you can switch between. We called this “auto-assign” mode and “auto-renumber” mode.
You can toggle between the two modes using Tools menu>Turn on/off automatically renumber provision.
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See Renumbering for how to trigger the renumbering of a selection of provisions or the whole document. |
Auto-assign mode
In this mode, Lawmaker will assign a number to newly inserted (and pasted) provisions to give them a unique number without changing any existing numbers. For more on the logic applied see Rules used to "auto-assign" numbers to provisions.
By default, Lawmaker will auto-assign a number for provisions when they move around. However, there is an auto-renumber option which currently only works when inserting or deleting provisions (not through drag & drop). It does not include the management of any x-refs within the renumbered portion so make sure you tag any intended cross references before you renumber.
How to set Editor to ‘automatically renumber provisions’
Open up your selected document in the Editor
Select “Tools > Automatically renumber provision’ from the upper-tool bar
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Auto-renumber mode
In this mode all lower level provisions are automatically renumbered whenever you insert (including paste) or delete (including cut) a provision.
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Hints and tips Whenever you open a document in the Editor, a green pop-up message will appear in the top right-hand corner of the screen letting you know what numbering mode Lawmaker is in If you have enabled ‘Automatically renumber provisions’ only lower-level elements will be renumbered (subsections and below for bills; paragraphs and below for SI/SSIs and schedule sub-paragraphs for all documents’ schedules) 'Automatically renumber provisions' will remain enabled for all other documents that you edit (including after you log out and log back in again) until you choose to turn it off again. You can prevent a number from being renumbered by locking it (see ‘Locking and unlocking numbers’) |