Latex: Numbered Subsubsections

LaTex lets you break the document down into chapters, sections, subsections, subsubsections and paragraphs. By default subsubsections and paragraphs are not numbered or included in the table of contents. Sometimes this might be desirable. However, I usually find that in cases when I do not need them numbered, I usually never use them (ie. my documents are broken down by chapter, section, and subsection only). At other times, when I desire more granularity, I actually want subsubsections to show up in the TOC and have distinctive headings and numbers.

To enable this you will need to put 2 lines of code somewhere in your preamble:

\setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}
\setcounter{tocdepth}{3}

The first line enables numbering of subsubsections. The second line includes subsubsections in the table of contents.

Btw, if you need to break down your document even more you can switch 3 to 4 in these lines to enable numbering for paragraphs.

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27 Responses to Latex: Numbered Subsubsections

  1. Shimul BANGLADESH Mozilla Firefox Windows says:

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  2. Alice CANADA Mozilla Firefox Windows says:

    This was totally helpful! Thanks so much :)

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  3. Dweia DENMARK Mozilla Firefox Linux says:

    Very useful! I found I needed to number my subsubsection and this was just the thing! Thanks!

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  4. Sandro ITALY Mozilla Firefox Windows says:

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  10. wa GERMANY Mozilla Firefox Windows says:

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  11. Yen CZECH REPUBLIC Mozilla Firefox Windows says:

    Hi, thanks a lot ;-)
    After that my subsubsection are “lettered” instead of numbered in TOC. There is a chance to change it to number?
    Example:
    I have \subsubsection (Hello) and it appears in TOC like
    5.1.2 Greetings
    b) Hello

    And I need it like: 5.1.2.1 Hello :-/

    I do not use \Chapter level, my first level is \Section…

    Thanks for any help :-)

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  13. Yen CZECH REPUBLIC Mozilla Firefox Windows says:

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    Very helpful. Thanks a lot! :-)

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  15. Daniel SWEDEN Mozilla Firefox Linux says:

    Very helpful. It was what I was looking for. Thanks

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  16. shyam UNITED STATES Google Chrome Windows says:

    Thanks a lot for such useful information

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  17. Sebnem Er TURKEY Google Chrome Windows says:

    Thanks a million… very clear instructions…

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  18. santi novani JAPAN Internet Explorer Windows says:

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  19. Student NORWAY Google Chrome Windows says:

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  20. Matt UNITED KINGDOM Mozilla Firefox Linux says:

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  21. Liviu ROMANIA Google Chrome Mac OS says:

    Hey, thanks.
    Great post: short and straight to the point.
    That’s the answer I’ve been looking for. Got my problem solved now.

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  22. D Mandal Mozilla Firefox Windows says:

    Dear All,
    I am facing problem in getting correct Figure No. in Latex. I am using the following code for subfigures:

    \begin{figure}[htpb]
    \centering
    \subfloat[$1$mm]{\label{fig:LIT1}\includegraphics[width=0.22\textwidth  ]{LIT_1mm}}
    \hfill
    \subfloat[$3$mm]{\label{fig:LIT3}\includegraphics[width=0.22\textwidth  ]{LIT_3mm}}
    \hfill
    \subfloat[$5$mm]{\label{fig:LIT5}\includegraphics[width=0.22\textwidth  ]{LIT_5mm}}
    \hfill
    \subfloat[$10$mm]{\label{fig:LIT10}\includegraphics[width=0.22\textwid th]{LIT_10mm}}
    \caption{Photographs of Li$_2$TiO$_3$ pebbles.}
    \label{fig:packingLIT}
    \end{figure}

    and the following code for Figures without sub-figures,

    \begin {figure}[htbp]
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.95\textwidth  ]{TG_Li2CO3_f}
    \caption{TG-DTA curves of Li$_2$CO$_3$ decomposition. Temperature was ramped at $10^oC/$min.}
    \label{fig:TGLi2CO3}
    \end{figure}

    I want somebody’s help,

    D. Mandal
    IndiaD Mandal wrote:

    Previewed comment:
    Dear All,
    I am facing problem in getting correct Figure No. in Latex. I am using the following code for subfigures:
    \begin{figure}[htpb]
    \centering
    \subfloat[$1$mm]{\label{fig:LIT1}\includegraphics[width=0.22\textwidth  ]{LIT_1mm}}
    \hfill
    \subfloat[$3$mm]{\label{fig:LIT3}\includegraphics[width=0.22\textwidth  ]{LIT_3mm}}
    \hfill
    \subfloat[$5$mm]{\label{fig:LIT5}\includegraphics[width=0.22\textwidth  ]{LIT_5mm}}
    \hfill
    \subfloat[$10$mm]{\label{fig:LIT10}\includegraphics[width=0.22\textwid th]{LIT_10mm}}
    \caption{Photographs of Li$_2$TiO$_3$ pebbles.}
    \label{fig:packingLIT}
    \end{figure}
    and the following code for Figures without sub-figures,
    \begin {figure}[htbp]
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.95\textwidth  ]{TG_Li2CO3_f}
    \caption{TG-DTA curves of Li$_2$CO$_3$ decomposition. Temperature was ramped at $10^oC/$min.}
    \label{fig:TGLi2CO3}
    \end{figure}
    I want somebody’s help,
    D. Mandal
    India

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  23. Eduardo Oportus Safari Mac OS says:

    Thank You so much! It was very helpful.

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  24. Marcus Mozilla Firefox Ubuntu Linux says:

    thank you! So simple and good :)

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  25. Marcus Mozilla Firefox Ubuntu Linux says:

    @ santi novani:
    You are using Internet Explorer?

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  26. Torben Google Chrome Linux says:

    Good job, thanks sir!

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  27. James MEXICO Google Chrome Windows says:

    Thank you!!!!!

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