Heading 5 numbering restarts and won't continue from Heading 4

[DAL]

I inherited a document from someone and found that Heading 5 numbering
restarts and won't continue from Heading 4. I've tried modifying the heading
by going under Format>Style>Modify>Format>Numbering>Oultine
Numbered>Customized. I'm not sure what to do especially since I've tried
resetting customized options and nothing works.

Example:
4.1.1.1
1.1.1.1.1.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Make sure that the outline numbering for all five heading levels is set us
exactly as described in
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numbering/OutlineNumbering.html

Also make sure that the first 1 in Level 5 is a field and not plain text.

 

[fiona nelson]

Hi DAL,

I had a very similar problem and I highly recommend Shauna's step by step
numbering help as recommended by Suzanne. I found that did not fix the whole
problem, however.

What worked for me was to have the cursor on the heading above (in your case
the heading 4 line), and then use the drop down list on the top left hand
side in the formatting toolbar (it shows what heading is being used) and
re-choose the correct heading (i.e. heading 4). It will ask you if you want
to re-set the whole of heading 4 or if you want to re-apply the style.
Choose re-apply style and see what happens. For me, it seemed to trigger
something in Word and my numbering started to behave .

Hope that helps.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

A quicker way to reapply the style is to press Ctrl+Q.

 

[fiona nelson]

Thanks for the tip Suzanne, you've saved me several hours of work!