[Fwd: Re: Maybe it's all in my head. . . (Word Problems)]

["Lisa A. Roth" <roth -dot- lisa -at- jimmy -dot- harvard -dot- edu>]

I seem to be in the minority amongst Word users, but I have had precious
few problems (knock on laminate cubicle desk) using Word numbering. I
have two different types of outline numbered styles defined in the template.

The one time I did run into something that sounds somewhat like your
re-numbering problems was when I made an adjustment to the style
slightly and forgot to re-record my "restart #" button/macro. (The macro
was still associating the "Restart" activity with the previous (i.e.,
incorrect) numbered list style from the list gallery.)

The result was that each new #1 (from the second #1 and thereon out) was
becoming detached from the rest of the list and causing rather strange
things to happen. My lists looked something like this:

1. Item
2. Item
3. Item

<Intervening blah blah>

1. Item
4. Item
5. Item
6. Item

If this at all resembles what's happening to you, try re-applying your #
styles top to bottom and restart numbering the good old fashioned way
(i.e., Format>Bullets and Numbering).

As for repaginating -- Are your documents very large and/or loaded with
complicated table formatting and/or graphics? I only recall having a
similar experience once or twice at a previous job. In those cases, the
document I was working on was about 350 pages containing a very large
number of tables and several switches back and forth between landscape
and portrait.  If that's your case, you may want to consider breaking up
your document into a few smaller portions. Also, although it's been a
while, I vaguely remember that working in Normal view instead of Print
Layout view helped quite a bit.


Pellar-Kosbar, Christine wrote: