Re: Microsoft Word's ?$%^(& Numbering

[Cirrus Matusek <CMatusek -at- LTDCOMMODITIES -dot- COM>]

paul, et al.

try subscribing to the Word-PC list;  there are a billion members there who
will inevitably have the answers to your numbering issues.

mailto:word-pc-subscribe-request -at- liverpool -dot- ac -dot- uk

hope this helps.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Moloney [SMTP:paulmoloney -at- SEPRO -dot- IE]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 1999 6:29 AM
> To:   TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject:      Microsoft Word's ?$%^(& Numbering
>
> HI there,
>
> Sorry is this is the wrong list to
> post to - is there a list specific to
> Microsoft Word?
>
> Anyway, I've never known anything
> as bad as Microsoft Word 97's
> methods of numbering - did they
> get crack-crazed wombats to
> write this function? Currently,
> I'm generating a manual online
> help using ForeHelp's "Generate
> Manual" procedure (yeah, I know,
> this shouldn't be done, but it's
> an emergency). Anyway, the
> numbering has come out totally
> screwed up - roman numerals
> instead of numbers, the indentation
> messed up, etc.
>
> I'm now manually trying to fix the
> problem: all I want is to have two
> levels of numbering, for example:
>
> 1. Here is the first step, followed by two sub-steps:
>     a.  Here is substep a.
>     b.  Here is substep b.
> 2. Here is the second step.
>     a.  Here is substep a...
>
> etc.
>
> Word refused to allow me to restart the
> numbering of the substeps after each step, _or_
> to have the proper indentation. Am I wasting
> my time, and should I manually do all the numbering
> (using the SEQ keyword)?
>
> P.7
>
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> Paul Moloney,
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