Introduction
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. By default, the system 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.
Video explaining how renumbering works
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
- The system will now renumber lower-level provisions as you insert/delete them
How to renumber
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- Highlight the set of provisions you want to renumber using the breadcrumb to select a single provision; or using the structure view to select one or more contiguous, sibling provisions, or
- Place cursor in the provision you want to renumber
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You can trigger a renumbering of a single provision, the whole document or a selection of provisions within the document.
How to renumber
To trigger a renumber, do one of the following:
Click on the Renumber icon in the toolbar,
Right-click in the Editor
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or Structure
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View and select
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Renumber,
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Press keyboard short-cut Alt+n
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If you’ve selected some provisions before triggering renumber then those provisions will be renumbered. Otherwise, you’ll be given a choice of whether to renumber the current provision (i.e.
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the section,
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regulation etc. or schedule containing your cursor) or the whole document.
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Hints and tips
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Renumbering the whole document will require locks to be taken on all provisions so can’t be done if anyone else is editing the same document at the time. |
If your cursor is within a quoted structure then you’ll be given a choice between the current provision and the whole quoted structure instead.
Lawmaker will renumber the provisions sequentially including all their descendants. It won’t renumber any locked numbers and those numbers will influence subsequent numbers - see Locking and unlocking numbers.
Renumbering and quoted structures
The renumber function will not renumber provisions in quoted structures except where your cursor is within a quoted structure before you trigger the operation.
If you want to renumber a quoted structure, place your cursor within it and then trigger the renumber operation selecting “whole quoted Structure” as the scope of the operation. This will renumber that quoted structure. It won’t renumber any other quoted structures, including any adjacent quoted structures.
See Quoted structures for more on quoted structures generally.