Re: Numbered list misbehaviour in Word97...

[John Lynch <support -at- MEETINGMATRIX -dot- COM>]

Anne, try this web page and look through the "Tips of the Month", there is
one there specifically to help with MSWord's "Auto-Numbering" problems.
This tip DOES work!

http://www.knopf.com.

You will need the SR-1 patch though.

At 10:19 AM 11/6/98 -0500, you wrote:
>
>I had a similar problem on Monday and was losing my mind.  I set up my
>numbering
>as Dave said. The numbers would be fine for 4 or 5 sections, then would flip
>out
>and skip ahead 15 numbers.  For example, I'd get 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2,
13.1,
>15.2, etc. In frustration, I ran out and bought a Word 97 book  and called
>friends with lots of Word experience to no avail.  Then, after 10 attempts, it
>seemingly worked.  I saved it, closed out, bought it home, loaded it on my
>machine, edited it, numbers were fine, saved it and closed out. Opened it
>Tuesday morning and the numbers were flipping out again.  So I reverted to the
>unedited, but correctly numbered, version.  Opened it up and, lo and behold,
>the
>numbers were GONE!!!  I ended up just blowing away all the funky numbering
from
>the edited version and numbering by hand.  Not the right way to handle it, but
>the company chairman was waiting for his document.
>
>Any suggestions for Dan would greatly help me too.  Would downloading SR-1
>help?
>

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