Numbering lost in Heading Outline when open Doc

[khill]

A word 2000 document was saved with 2003 and then reopen
document and the Headings are gone. How do I get them
back.

 

[Khill]

Example:
1. Word 2000
7.0 Procedure
7.1 Description
a. Item 1

2.Open Document with word 2003
3.Save and close the document.
4.Open the document in word 2003
5.The Document looks like this now:
7.0 Procedure
Description
Item 1

I have several hundred documents with 20-30 pages of
heading outlines. Help

 

[Jean-Guy Marcil]

Bonjour,

Dans son message, < Khill > écrivait :
In this message, < Khill > wrote:

|| Example:
|| 1. Word 2000
|| 7.0 Procedure
|| 7.1 Description
|| a. Item 1
||
|| 2.Open Document with word 2003
|| 3.Save and close the document.
|| 4.Open the document in word 2003
|| 5.The Document looks like this now:
|| 7.0 Procedure
|| Description
|| Item 1
||
|| I have several hundred documents with 20-30 pages of
|| heading outlines. Help
||

Just a long shot....
Right after opening the document, have you tried CTRL-A (Select all) and
CTRL-Q (Reset paragraphs)?

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[Margaret Aldis]

It's possible this was caused by having 'Update document styles
automatically' checked in Tools > Templates and Add-Ins.

If that's not it, then Word 2003 must be a bit more sensitive to whatever of
the many numbering 'gotchas' you have in your document. You'll need to set
up the styles following the instructions in

http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numbering/OutlineNumbering.html

If we are talking about 100s of documents, you'll want to think about
recording a macro or setting the styles up once in a template and updating
the documents from that (either using Tools > Templates and Add-Ins or the
Organizer - you'll need to test which works most reliably for you).