atw: Re: Word renumbering woes


snip - howard silcock wrote>
Well, I guess it depends what you mean by 'stable'. If you mean 
that the list's not going to suddenly reformat or renumber itself, 
then that's true enough.
<end snip>

I'm going to disagree Howard. And I'm not saying it's easy - but 
you can have stable formatting and numbering in Microsoft Word.

1. Set up your numbered list styles as part of the heading outline 
series.
The list will restart like clockwork when the higher level outline 
style is used.  And granted - this is not always feasible; but if 
it works for your document to have your lists tied to your 
headings - it will be stable.

2. DO NOT manually format your outline list - it will corrupt.  
Define the paragraph styles, link them to your outline list levels 
and do not change them.  (A bit more difficult in 2007 but it can 
be done).

3. DO NOT paste text, particularly automated list, heading or 
bulleted text from other documents into your document - it will 
corrupt the list.  If you need to, use Paste Unformatted so that 
the paragraph text comes in as unformatted text.

Rule 1 rarely works for the sorts of document templates I set up 
and use on a regular basis.  I set up an independent outline list 
series and then I convert the list to text once I don't need the 
autonumbering any more.

HTH
Suzy

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