atw: Re: Help!! Word numbering Restart problem
- From: "Christine Kent" <christine_kent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 14:57:34 +1000
I have never really worked out how to solve this problem when you have a
team of writers. As numbered list formatting changes from machine to
machine, its just a hell of a lot of editing time at the end. You just get
things stable on your machine and it all blows away again when it gets onto
another machine.
If you make sure you have automatically update styles off, you can fudge
things for the final edit and get away with it, as long as the document is
not going to be regularly maintained.
I still think, if you have any chance to do so, that you get them to work a
different way.
ck
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[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Amanda Cat
Sent: Friday, 17 August 2007 1:29 PM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: Help!! Word numbering Restart problem
You're all correct. This is a PITA :)
I have taken Christine's suggestion and, after a lot of wrestling, created a
new style, using Outline numbering so I can specify the margins in both the
style *and* the Numbering box. This has aleviated the Restart pain.
I know what you're saying, Bob, about short lists and whatnot, but these
guys are writing long procedures and they consist of many, many steps and
figures and sub-heading interrupts. If I were formatting all the documents,
I would probably do it another way, but these guys are less Word-savvy than
me (!!) and I need to make it as simple as possible.
It *seems* to be stable at the moment. I will certainly ask if it breaks
again. I have never used the ListNum field and will be sure to do some
research :)
Many, MANY thanks for the help!
Amanda
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