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is it possible to swap the numbering of the section block with it's title.

\section{Section}

like

Section 1

instead of

1 Section

I use

\documentclass[fleqn,12pt]{article}
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  • This depends on the documentclass you are using. Can provide that information? – Andrew Swann Oct 12 '16 at 14:21
  • A priori, if the class is compatible, it's easy with titlesec. – Bernard Oct 12 '16 at 14:31
  • This means you don't want to specify a title for the section, just "Section 1"? – egreg Oct 12 '16 at 14:33
  • To echo egreg, I think "My Section Title 1" looks stranger than "1 My Section Title". Is that what you really want? – Teepeemm Oct 12 '16 at 14:36
  • I want to provide a name for a section but I don't like the order. e.g. 1 Problem isn't the same as Problem 1. – jam Oct 12 '16 at 14:40
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    To format sections: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/36609/formatting-section-titles if you want every \section statement to issue Problem Nº you can put the word 'Problem' before the \thesection and then issue \section{}. Or if a Problem has a name then \section{Name} and change the separator 1em to something like -- or whatever pleases you the most. – Guilherme Zanotelli Oct 12 '16 at 14:58
  • My gut tells me that you misunderstand the purpose of the argument. I think you want "Problem 1", "Section 3", and things like that. Instead, \section{Euler's Theorem} normally produces "1. Euler's Theorem". You could rearrange things to have "Section 1. Euler's Theorem". But having "Euler's Theorem 1." would be wrong. If you want "Problem 1", et.c., I think you'd be better served by itemizing and using enumitem or a related package. – Teepeemm Oct 13 '16 at 15:30

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By using the titlesec package with the explicit package option should give you what you want. You need to add #1 to the <before code> part of the \titleformat command:

\documentclass[fleqn,12pt]{article}
\usepackage[explicit]{titlesec}
\titleformat{\section}[hang]{\Huge\bfseries}{}{0pt}{#1\quad\thesection}[]

\begin{document}
\section{My First Section}
\section{My Second Section}
\end{document}

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#1 represents the words of the title and does not work when explicit is not used, \thesection is the number of the section, and \quad is spacing.

A simpler version would be:

    \documentclass[fleqn,12pt]{article}
        \usepackage[explicit]{titlesec}
        \titleformat{\section}[hang]{}{}{0pt}{#1\quad\thesection}[]

\begin{document}
    \section{My First Section}
    \section{My Second Section}
    \end{document}

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The form of titlesec formatting is as so:

\titleformat{<command>}[<shape>]{<format>}{<label>}{<sep>}{<before-code>}[<after-code>]

This is similar to the question asked here:

Adding section number after section title with titlesec package

Edit, I'll try and break it down a little. The documentation is a bit vague regarding the label section.

\titleformat{<command>}[<shape>]{<format>}{<label>}{<sep>}{<before-code>}[<after-code>]

\titleformat{<command>} is the part were you override an existing title command, such as \section or \chapter

[<shape>] defines the shape of the title, hang is the same as a normal title using display for example would yield a result similar to the standard chapter title format.

{<format>} defines the format of the title text and takes most standard latex values such as \Huge or \bfseries.

{<label>} defines the label of the section title but is no longer needed with the explicit package option and will be defined with #1 later.

{<sep>} is the separation between the title and the first paragraph and takes any standard latex length such as 1em or 12pt.

{<before-code>} this is where we define the position of the title text with #1 and then the number with \thesection giving a spacing between them with \quad (though you could use \hspace{<len>}).

[<after-code>] could be used to define underlines or such but isn't necessary in this example.

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  • Is \thesection a counter, and \quad a spacing unit ? And what is the label, I couldn't find any definitions in the documentation. – jam Oct 13 '16 at 18:25
  • I've updated my post with more information, please let me know if that helps @jam – onekanban Oct 13 '16 at 21:12