In the top right corner of your document you should see a new icon injected by the extension — click on it to open up the line numbering settings.
If you do not see this icon, please try restarting Chrome and reloading the Google Docs page.
A quick description of all the settings available in the extension.
This is a checkbox that allows you to toggle the visibility of the line numbers.
Changing the numbering type changes the way lines are numbered.
- Continuous: line numbers will continuously increment regardless of page or section boundaries.
- Restart Each Page: line numbers counts will be reset to the start at value at the beginning of each page.
This value defines the number to start counting from on each count reset. For example, if this is set to 5, the first line will be numbered as 5. If at any point line numbering is reset, then line counting will also start from 5.
This value defines the step taken in numbering lines. For example, if this value is set to 5, then line numbers will only appear for lines that are a multiple of 5. So lines 5, 10, 15, and so on will be numbered but not the others.
If you want to exclude or include certain parts of the document from the line count these are the settings you want to change.
- Blank lines: toggles the numbering or empty/blank lines in the document.
- Headers: toggles the numbering of the header sections in the document.
- Footers: toggles the numbering of the footer sections in the document.