U
UCAT Pete
To set the stage, I've been a Word user since v.1.0 for DOS and am one of the
greatest proponents of it as a superior word processor, so I'm hard to annoy.
However......
Yesterday, I set up four levels of styles in a custom template to use when I
want to apply a numbering format different from the Word standards. I defined
five styles for the various levels of numbering I wanted and attached them to
my template. I used the template and the styles successfully with one
exception.
I had three instances of level 3 numbering, each of which had several (4 or
5) instances of level 4 numbering following. By default, the level 4s
numbered continuously as I expected. When I right-clicked on the first level
4 paragraph under the second level 3 heading and selected restart numbering,
nothing happened...the first paragraph still started at f. I tried the same
thing with the last group of level 4 paragraphs and it worked as advertised,
restarting at a. When I looked at the numbering formatting for the numbering
for the second (renegade) group, it said "start at a." but the facts of the
matter were very different. Regardless of what I've tried, including deleting
the five offending paragraphs and retyping them, the first one is "numbered"
as "f." I went into Reveal Formatting and compared the format of a successful
restart and the unsuccessful one. There were no differences. I finally had to
remove the Level 4 style from those five paragraphs and indent them manually,
then number them manually.
I'm very frustrated with my beloved Word and wonder what I've missed. I've
also looked at Shauna Kelly's extensive treatise on amending styles and will
attempt to implement it as an alternative, but I really wonder which bug I've
uncovered and what to do about it.
greatest proponents of it as a superior word processor, so I'm hard to annoy.
However......
Yesterday, I set up four levels of styles in a custom template to use when I
want to apply a numbering format different from the Word standards. I defined
five styles for the various levels of numbering I wanted and attached them to
my template. I used the template and the styles successfully with one
exception.
I had three instances of level 3 numbering, each of which had several (4 or
5) instances of level 4 numbering following. By default, the level 4s
numbered continuously as I expected. When I right-clicked on the first level
4 paragraph under the second level 3 heading and selected restart numbering,
nothing happened...the first paragraph still started at f. I tried the same
thing with the last group of level 4 paragraphs and it worked as advertised,
restarting at a. When I looked at the numbering formatting for the numbering
for the second (renegade) group, it said "start at a." but the facts of the
matter were very different. Regardless of what I've tried, including deleting
the five offending paragraphs and retyping them, the first one is "numbered"
as "f." I went into Reveal Formatting and compared the format of a successful
restart and the unsuccessful one. There were no differences. I finally had to
remove the Level 4 style from those five paragraphs and indent them manually,
then number them manually.
I'm very frustrated with my beloved Word and wonder what I've missed. I've
also looked at Shauna Kelly's extensive treatise on amending styles and will
attempt to implement it as an alternative, but I really wonder which bug I've
uncovered and what to do about it.