How to Apply Multilevel Numbering to a MS Word Technical Document

© Ugur Akinci
Some documents like software or legal documents require multilevel numbering of headings that look like the following:

Imagine you have a Word document like the following:

 
To attach a multilevel number to each heading, first make sure all your headings are assigned one of the heading styles in the style set you have chosen for your document (as shown above).
Then, select the following style from the multilevel numbering drop-down list on the Home tab:

 
Here is the result:

Fast and easy, isn’t it?