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Subject:Re: Numbering outline levels in Word From:Sean Brierley <seanb_us -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:44:28 -0700 (PDT)
9 levels is sort of a lot, though, isn't it? I mean, I
avoid 4.
Cheers,
Sean
--- Dick Margulis <margulis -at- fiam -dot- net> wrote:
>
> Diane Evans wrote:
>
> >
> > One of our programmers just asked me a question:
> is it possible in
> > Word to have more than nine levels of outline
> numbering?
> >
>
> Sounds like Y2K redux. Some programmer in the bad
> old days probably
> figured nobody would ever need more than nine levels
> and so reserved a
> single digit for the marker ;-) As with all legacy
> code, the likelihood
> of anyone digging in to find and fix that "feature"
> is remote,
> especially given that the obvious questions you
> mention are always going
> to push this down the priority list.
