heading weirdness (thesis fun)

[Julia in Wisconsin]

Hello hallo,

O.K., I'm breaking up my questions a bit. Still working on my
husband's thesis. I have made heading 6 to duplicate heading 1 in
appearance without the text entering into the chapter numbering
system. I'm still just working with the beginning part of the whole
thing, so I've got the title page (no heading 1 or heading 6 on the
whole page), then a page for the Table of Contents, a page for List of
Figures, and a page for List of Tables. Right now those three pages
just have a single line of text at the top, and I've put each into
Heading 6.

Nevertheless, my first line of print that is actually in Heading 1
says "Chapter 2." What happened to Chapter 1? I swear I set up the
numbering following Shauna's directions!

Also, on the third pre-text page, a pair of parentheses keep appearing
prior to the words "List of Tables." I delete them and they come
back. They are traditional looking parentheses, not curly brackets or
square brackets.

I'll stop here. Thanks for your help!!

Julia in Wisconsin.

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word]]

Hi Julia:

Make SURE that Heading 6 is NOT set to "Based on" Heading 1, or you will get
serious misery with your numbering.

Make sure that you have defined the numbering for Heading 1 to Start At "1"
otherwise, you will indeed start with Chapter 2.

Make sure that the Heading 1 got to the top of the page as a result of a
"Page Break Before" paragraph property, and NOT a hard page break.

Otherwise, due to a bug, the page break gets the style of the paragraph
following it. In this case, it's Heading 1. So the Page Break actually
becomes Chapter 1 and the heading becomes Chapter 2. It's a bug...

Click your Show/Hide button so that you can see your paragraph marks: you
are floundering around in the dark at the moment. When you can, examine the
paragraph that the brackets are appearing on: what is the name of the style
it has?

Chances are, the brackets are coming out of the numbering attached to that
style.

Hope this helps


This responds to article <[email protected]>,

Hello hallo,

O.K., I'm breaking up my questions a bit. Still working on my
husband's thesis. I have made heading 6 to duplicate heading 1 in
appearance without the text entering into the chapter numbering
system. I'm still just working with the beginning part of the whole
thing, so I've got the title page (no heading 1 or heading 6 on the
whole page), then a page for the Table of Contents, a page for List of
Figures, and a page for List of Tables. Right now those three pages
just have a single line of text at the top, and I've put each into
Heading 6.

Nevertheless, my first line of print that is actually in Heading 1
says "Chapter 2." What happened to Chapter 1? I swear I set up the
numbering following Shauna's directions!

Also, on the third pre-text page, a pair of parentheses keep appearing
prior to the words "List of Tables." I delete them and they come
back. They are traditional looking parentheses, not curly brackets or
square brackets.

I'll stop here. Thanks for your help!!

Julia in Wisconsin.

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