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>>>None of that's working for me. (v7)
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>>Just to make sure, you are looking at the bottom frame of the window for the line numbers, correct? They do not show to the left of lines.
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>Oh, yes, on the status bar. I know it of old, and it's a shame they don't appear at LH side of lines - just an updating 9/99 display. I'm getting nowt. Probably when i next come in it'll work - a bit quirky. Cheers Will.

Set Message To. Or else the last message stays set and the line numbers can't override it. Also, anytime you pull up the document view, it issues its own messages, which also override line numbers - and I think these messages stay when you flip back to your editing window.

So as much as it's easy to set, it's hard to make it stay set.