Numbering changing between computers W2000

[moose]

Hi,
I have a document, about 200 pages in Word 2000. I have finally, after
much reading of this group, gotten all of the heading numbering to
work. The problem comes when I move the document to my laptop to work
at home... on the laptop, my headings (e.g. 2.3.4) all follow chapter 1
(so, 2.3.4 becomes 1.17.4), and my chapter headings disappear
altogether.

Very puzzling... I'm wondering if there is something to do with the
normal template on both computers.... I thought that I had been
meticulous about using styles for every paragraph, but maybe I'm
missing something?

Thanks for any suggestions.

mike

 

[Stefan Blom]

Make sure that numbering is attached to styles, as described at
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numbering/OutlineNumbering.html, apply
styles to text in order to apply numbering. If it still doesn't work,
select the whole document and press Ctrl+Q (this runs the ResetPara
command, which resets paragraph formatting to that of the applied
style).

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


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[mooseo]

Hmm, I have set up my numbering attached to styles. What I notice is
that when I copy the document from one computer to the other (either
using a synchronization program, or by copying directly) is that two
weird things happen.

One is that all of my chapter labels vanish... this is the style that
the numbering was linked to... secondly, the numbered list format
changes from one computer to another...

Are there parts of the formatting that are not contained within the
document itself?

thanks a bunch!

mike

 

[mooseo]

Never mind, I found it:
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/sharing/WillMyFormatChange.html
turns out that there was a link to my original template that I had
totally forgotten about.

Thanks to Stefan for pointing me there and Shauna for answering my
question before I asked it.

cheers,
mike

 

[Stefan Blom]

Copying and pasting numbered headings might be tricky. A workaround is
to use File>Save As, which would preserve the numbering of the
original document, and then delete any content that shouldn't be in
the newly created document.

However, when you move a file to a different computer, caption labels
must always be recreated, because these are stored in Normal.dot (and
no other template). Of course, this doesn't apply to the built-in
Figure, Table, and Equation labels (unless you're also moving to a
different language version of Word).

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Microsoft Word MVP


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