Re: Numbered list problem
From: Elliott Roper (nospam_at_yrl.co.uk)
Date: 03/20/05
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Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 22:45:11 +0000
In article <BE643FDB.F6C30%plantago@optushome.com.au>, Dave Bulman
<plantago@optushome.com.au> wrote:
> Hi Elliott,
>
> Thanks for the suggestion. I am still little confused still though:
>
> >
> > I found a simple workaround for restarting numbering in a particular
> > paragraph style, while wrestling with something similar.
> > Start with a dummy paragraph in the numbered style (note that it
> > continues the numbering and restart is greyed out in bullets and
> > numbering)
> Follow this bit, but then:
>
> > Create the next (first real paragraph) of the new sequence. You will
> > note that numbering can be restarted. Do so.
>
> Are you referring to the Format>Bullets and Numbering menu option?
> If so then this is only way I have been able to restart numbers: not the
> recommended method, I believe.
Yes, and yes, so I believe too.
> Indeed it was this approach that I had used
> only to find that the numbering had reverted to continuation of the
> numbering from a previous list on re-opening a document, that led me to this
> query.
Aak! I had never had that happen to me.
> If on the other hand, you are referring to the
> Format>Style>Modify>Format>Numbering where such numbering options should
> be done, there is no ³restart numbering² available.
No there isn't. I'd be wary of playing in there in the middle of a
document. It seems to start a new list if you look at it funny.
>
> > Delete the dummy paragraph.
> >
> > I can't reproduce your fault at the moment -- I have since got my
> > numbered styles to play nicely after following Shauna's and John's
> > advice.
> >
> > Also note that using "Bullets and Numbering" menu command to restart
> > numbering has been deprecated by some of the MVP gurus.
>
> I will take another look at the John & Shaunas notes however I may have
> missed something!
I carefully followed Shauna's recipe for creating and using numbered
styles. So far it has worked well, and restarting the numbering in
those styles with format and bullets has not bitten me yet.
I even recorded a macro to do that to my most frequently used numbered
style. Looking at the macro shows what scary things the restart
numbering does in bullets and numbering. It manages to convice the
innards of word which list wants its numbering restarted. (The list
number is a more closely guarded secret than the combination of the
safes in DeBeers diamond clearing house in Amsterdam. ;-) )
What is really scary is that the keystroke I assigned to it works for
restarting other numbered styles. Even though the style and list is
named in the macro.
Pure magic. I feel a bit like the sorcerer's apprentice with a bit of a
flood on my hands.
I think I might re-read John's notes too. I though I understood what
was happening. Oh dear!
> Dave
>
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