Merged Microsoft document causes bullets to restart numbering in random places

[Carol H via OfficeKB.com]

We recently conducted a very large Microsoft Word merge document. When we
created the initial doument, we created a bulleted list of numbered questions
(1-60) which incorporates variable data into the questionnaire from an Excel
database. When our print shop completed the merge and printed the document,
we had thousands of questionnaires that had questions 1-21, 1-29, and 1-10.
Can anyone tell me what caused the numbering to restart in these random
locations and how we can avoid this problem in the future?

 

[Doug Robbins]

Hard to tell what caused it without seeing the document, but a sure way to
avoid it is to convert all the numbers to text. That can be done using VBA

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