Seq field solution?

[jopakent at comcast.net]

I've done this too many times to be beating my head on this AGAIN!

I thought I'd mastered Word's numbering "joy" to the extent that I'd be able to set up a simple set of Heading 1, 2, & 3 that would number as 1.0, 1.1, & 1.1.1, but after a week of on again off again performance I'm approaching ga-ga-land.

As this is a new gig and a new set of opportunities, my first response to seeing that I am going to be working with Word and nested, numbered headings was to do some Google searches on seq fields. 

Alas, I didn't really find a solution that worked. I know that seq fields work pretty well (we used em for numbering appendix figures and tables in my last gig), but what I was hoping to find was something that would be somewhat automatic once I set it up. I thought I'd be able to define a numbering level, associate it with a Heading style, and then have the numbering update depending on where the text occurs in the document. (In other words if I've got section 1.5.1 and insert a couple of Heading 1's in front of it, section 1.5.1 would update to section 3.5.1)

The closest thing I found in my search seemed to require tweaking the fields any time you move headings in a document. Internet search is frightfully slow on this network, and I didn't want to look like I was spending their nickel surfing for no gain, so I gave up. I do seem to recall solutions that were touted as fully functional that would replace the accused, gallery-driven abomination I'm currently stuck with. 

Can someone point me in the right direction before I self-emmolate out of utter frustration?

Thanks,

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J. Paul Kent 
206-383-0539