Number Lists going wacky

From: Alisa Limvere (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/27/04 

Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 12:32:34 -0700

It's very possible that your problem is a bug that is
reported in Word in article KB292073. This causes the
restarts to be stripped from numbered lists when content
is referenced as a subdocument or InsertFile.

This has been a bug for quite a while with Word (I was
fighting it in Word 97 and it's still a bug in 2002).
Does anyone know if it's fixed for 2003?

My workaround is that I don't use master/subdocuments at
all. I use the RD field code to reference documents to
build my Table of Contents and Index when I have to break
up a large document over several files.

Alisa
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi Jennifer
>
>Welcome to the pain that we all have to endure - Word
>numbering :-). More has been written and discussed on
>this topic than any other I dare say.
>
>There are solutions to make numbering work reliably,
most
>involve correct style setup and some you have to program
>using VBA.
>
>Go to the following link, click on the "Numbering" tab
>and do some reading before you launch into
>experimentation.
>
>http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/index.htm
>
>Best of luck,
>Dennis
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>I have two documents in Word 2003 that I am trying to
>join together. I have
>>used copy/paste, and tried opening one document then
>importing the other.
>>The problem I run into is that the the auto number
lists
>in the copy or
>>imported document no longer work properly. Both
>documents are manuals with
>>sections that have numbered steps. In the copied
>sections the numbers do not
>>start over with 1 where they did in the original. I
>have tried restart
>>numbering and continue numbering and neither work
>properly either. For
>>example, I have a section that has 7 steps. On the
next
>section, I would
>>like to start with 1 again. It instead shows 8.
Trying
>to restart the
>>numbering not only doesn't set the 8 to 1, it also
>screws up the previous
>>section numbers.
>>
>>Please tell me how to get the numbering working
properly
>in my joined
>>documents.
>>
>>Thanks
>>.
>>
>.
>

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