atw: Re: Goodbye technical writing ...

Hi Geoff,

It's a notorious bug that has been in Word since I don't know when...

The solution is to create a new paragraph with the text and then restart the 
numbering of that para - that is, place your cursor at the start of the 
numbered sentence, press Enter (to  create the new para), restart as per either 
of the ways you describe, and then delete the now empty recalcitrant para.  
This should work.

The bug seems to occur most when you paste content and then apply numbered 
styles... or when you copy numbered lists and move them around and want to 
restart them.

HTH - Pete
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From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
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Sent: 10 July 2009 13:56
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Subject: atw: Goodbye technical writing ...

... it's time to apply for a job as a garbage collector. It would certainly be 
less frustrating than using MS-bloody-Word.

Why oh why can't I restart the numbering of a numbered paragraph. I do 
everything that the OLH tells me (right-click the paragraph and select Restart 
Numbering), but nought happens. With my cursor in the paragraph, I display the 
Bullets and Numbering... dialog, but the Restart Numbering radio button is 
greyed out. I can restart the numbering of other numbered paragraphs in the 
vicinity, but not this recalcitrant bugger.

Any clues ... before I pull an early cork and call the local council?

Cheers

Geoffrey Marnell
Principal Consultant
Abelard Consulting Pty Ltd
T: +61 3 9596 3456
F: +61 3 9596 3625
W: www.abelard.com.au<http://www.abelard.com.au/>

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