Numbered Section Headings
Asked by Jill:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Page Layouts, Columns and Sections](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=275188613)*

My company is going to Confluence and the customer has specific formatting for all documentation. How do Tech writers insert/use numbered headings (e.g., 1.0 SECTION TITLE, 1.1 Subsection Title, 1.1.1, Sub-subsection title) in Confluence?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Natively, you don't - numbered headings aren't particularly pretty or useful on web-based docs, so Confluence doesn't have them built in.   

They do work better on paper and a lot of people print, so you can probably guess that there's an add-on for them. There may be others, but the one I've used most is <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/nl.avisi.confluence.plugins.numberedheadings/cloud/overview>

Some of the export add-ons also allow you to add them (Scroll export is the one I've used, and that's ideal - numbered headings when printing them, none when just viewing)

comments: author: pat madea
body: So Nic... I know this is an old post and I agree with your sentiment: numbered headings aren't pretty or useful on web-based docs but they do work better on paper/print.

I'm using the Content Exporter add-in for Confluence and it generates a PDF with a TOC with section numbers preceding the heading even though the headings do not have numbers. Is there a way to get the section numbers to appear in the PDF preceding the section headings (like they appear in the TOC)?

madea


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I know this is an old post, but Adaptavist built numbered headings into the [Content Formatting macros](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/247/content-formatting-macros-for-confluence?tab=overview&hosting=cloud&utm_source=Atlassian-Community&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=Comment_Numbered+Section+Headings_20230520) a while ago, and I moved on to using that when they did.


author: alexander.hipe
body: Use the heading.

It looks like

1 Introduction - for example then enter

Use the indention here. Then save and check the result.

comments: author: alexander.hipe
body: Update:

I got this result.

1.

2.

2.1

2.2

How?

![image.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/209251iF453F7A76F6AEDD3/image-dimensions/176x244?v=v2 "image.png")

1. Intro - Header 1 sample

2. Topic sample - Header 1 sample

2.1 Sub topic 1 - Header 2 sample

2.2 Sub topic 2 - Header 2 sample

<br />

![image.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/209252i59953563A665B5B7/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")


author: Nancy Jaiswal
body: Auto Numbered Headings [https://marketplace.atlassian.com/1219286](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/1219286?) can be used for applying and removing heading numbers in just a single click of button for whole space. It works well for web pages as well as exported content. It also provides a macro in case numbering needs to be applied on only selective pages.

comments: author: Riju Jacob
body: the link is not working for me..can you please help me with a working link


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