Microsoft Word Auto Numbering

[Frank Finnegan <frank -dot- finnegan -at- cisra -dot- canon -dot- com -dot- au>]

Greetings Everyone,

I need some help please to solve a problem I have with Microsoft Word. 
(Surprise, surprise!)

We are updating our very old Word templates to better reflect today's 
design standards. Most of our staff who use the templates are not Word 
experts and have little or no knowledge of styles and formatting. To be 
honest, most of their documents contain only Normal style paragraphs. My 
brief is to create a set of templates that are easy to use, are devoid 
of macros, have limited customized styles, and do not use customized 
toolbars. Basically, I need to craft a set of dumbed-down templates that 
still look great.

One of the templates uses Outline Numbering for Heading 1 through 
Heading 5. It also needs to be able to accommodate numbered lists. For 
example:

Heading 1
  Introduction paragraph, leading into a numbered list:
   1. Some text.
   2. Some more text

Heading 1.2
  Introduction paragraph, leading into a numbered list:
   1. Some text.
   2. Some more text

...and so on.

Normally I would use a SEQ field for the numbered lists, add it to auto 
text and assign it to a toolbar or shortcut key. Since this option is 
outside my brief, I am forced to rely on Word's unreliable and 
unpredictable auto-numbering feature. Here is my problem when pressing 
the Numbering toolbar button:

When the cursor is in a Normal paragraph that has another Normal 
paragraph preceding it, Word behaves as expected and adds numbering to 
the paragraph.

... however ...


When the cursor is in a Normal paragraph that follows a Heading 
paragraph, Word changes the style of the Normal paragraph to the same as 
the preceding Heading paragraph.


QUESTION:
How can I have both outline numbering (for the headings) and numbered 
lists in the same template?

I've searched the Web, the MVP sites, the Microsoft Knowledge Base, news 
groups, and the TECHWR-L archives and cannot find an answer. Any help 
you can give is greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Frank.

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