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I originally started using the Update Chapter Numbers and Paragraph Numbers for this reason.

I had about 40 to 50 chapters.

Each chpater was numbered in this format <chapter number><decimal><level 1><decimal><level 2> <decimal>etc.

or in laymans terms 1.1.1 then 1.1.2, or 1.2.1 etc. then chapter 2 would be 2.1, 2.1.1, 2.1.2 then 2.2, 2.2.1, etc. (every paragraph was numbered like this:

If you have 40 chapters and you've manually put in the numbering (as you had to do (or was previously done, I was just updating the files), then when you move chapter 40 to Chapter 2 position, you have a whole load of changes to do in changing all the chapter numbers and all the Numbered paragarphs.

Or to put it in other terms, if you have 3,200 pages of text, all with every single paragraph numbered, you don't want to be updating that manually.

I know my example is extreme, but it's a real life extremity.

Think about this catalogue, is it going to get bigger or smaller next year? What new products will the add? What new sections? Where will they go? How can you make this easier for the next person coming along? How can you make it easier for yourself for future changes?

Sure it's a bit of setup time, but in the long run it saves you days of work.

Once I figured out a GREP for searching paragraphs to be numbered I was able to number 3,200 pages within seconds, compared to the weeks it would have taken me.