Jazz up numbered paragraphs by turning numbers into dropcaps. Have them span two to three lines of each paragraph and wrap text around them or indent the text. With this treatment, you don't necessarily have to place the period after the number. You can pull out quotes from your article and use them as design elements, placing them in a column, across columns or in margins. When you create text sidebars, choose a font that is different from the body text.
Dull quotes stop readers in their tracks.
Keep quotations dynamic. Spell out numbers from one to nine and use figures for numbers over 10. There were hundreds of angry protesters. There were 115,607 employees worldwide who voted in favor. You will find the passage in Chapter 5.