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| - RH 6 is at least as stable as 4 and has tons of helpful features;
| the main bugs (including autonumbering) seem to lie in Word, not RH
| itself. The autonumbering bug remains enough of a problem to merit
| turning this feature off entirely and manually numbering steps;
| one person reported that even this may not work if you simply number
| paragraphs tagged with the "Normal" style, so it's best to create a
| separate "indented" style for your lists.
I definitely wouldn't suggest reverting to manual numbering. But I do agree
that you should avoid Word 97's autonumbering feature entirely. I have
posted a tip of my Web site describing how to do this. If you'd like to
check this out, just drop by http://www.knopf.com and click the link under
"Tip of the Month."
