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How do I create examination style numbering using styles?

Our exam board uses the style:

1  a)  Question 1

         A bit more question of question 1

 

    b) second part of the question

 

    c) third part

 

2      Here is question 2

 

3  a) Question 3

 

    b) second part of question 3

 

I am an experienced word user but am stumped when it comes to using styles to automatically number and format my questions in this way.

 

Does anyone have any ideas on how I may achieve this? It seems a pretty universal examination paper style, yet I have never seen anyone else do this in Word (other than 'cheating' with tables and tabs).

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Do use a table

Do not simply TYPE the numbers, use the Numbering or Multilevel numbering feature to create the numbers in the table cells.  Automated numbering will be maitained.

Or you could do the numbering using LISTNUM or SEQ fields, they just require manual copying  from row to row.  Here is a quickie example

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Using a LISTNUM field (for each "a)" paragraph in your example) would work. However, cheating with tables isn't a bad idea.
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