Am I going mad? - More tales of bizarre numbering in Word 03

[Paul]

Hi,

Just thought I would share the latest in the wierd numbering saga.

I have paragraph style called 'Notes Numbered' used in several places in my
document. I also have a very different charater style called 'Directors Name
Char'.

When I restart the numbering on a list in 'Notes Numbered' style, the list
does restart, but the first paragraph has the 'Director's name' style
applied to it (different size text and bold).

Hitting Ctrl+Space does not remove the character style and Reveal Formatting
claims the Paragraph style is 'Directors Name Char' (even though it is a
character style).

Setting the first paragraph back to Notes Numbered loses the Restart.
Choosing Restart through the Bullets and Numbering dialog does the same
thing.

I'm getting problems like this with numbering all the time in Word 2003.
Does anyone have a workaround for this and is anyone looking at a patch to
fix numbering?

Thanks

Paul

 

[Klaus Linke]

Hi Paul,

I've seen paragraph styles get linked to some random character style for no
apparent reason at all, so I'd check for that possibility.

In the VBA editor (Alt+F11), immediate window (Ctrl+G), type
? ActiveDocument.Styles("Directors Name Char").LinkStyle

You might check the same for the numbered style. Both should return
"Normal".
If each returns the name of the other, they are linked.

If the styles are linked, the problem should go away after you unlink them:
ActiveDocument.Styles("Directors Name
Char").LinkStyle=ActiveDocument.Styles(wdStyleNormal)

(It should be enough to do that for the character style)

I have never discovered reproducible steps for this bug, but I've seen it
happen in many, many documents.

It seems Microsoft wants to blur the distinction between paragraph styles
and character styles on purpose, so linked styles seem to be with us for
good... or for worse.

:-( Klaus