[Stefan Blom[_3_]]

Not sure if you're actually expecting an answer to this, or if you're just
venting. Note, however, that Microsoft doesn't monitor these groups. We, the
people answering questions here, do it on our own time...

Trying to ask your (implied) question: If this is heading numbering, you can
edit it by placing the insertion point in the first Heading 1 paragraph of
the document and then clicking Home tab | Multilevel List | Define New
Multilevel List. You'll see a dialog box similar to the Customize Outline
Numbered List dialog box of Word 97-2003. The dialog box allows you to
define all aspects of numbering (indentation, number format, linking to
paragraph styles, setting restart options, etc.).

If numbering won't "behave" for a certain level, it might be easier to just
delete the contents of the "Enter formatting for number" box in the dialog
box, and reinsert it via "Number style for this level" and "Include level
number from," typing the punctuation as needed.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"James C" James wrote in message
...
After 2 hours of putzing with multi-level lists, outline list, bullets and
numbers, and headings and the like...I give up. Everytime I think I have
this working... I edit a section of my document and the headings I dont
want
numbered get numbers, and the ones I had perfectly numbered reset to 1.1,
1.2, etc. Word 2007 continues to fight against me....

In switched back to Word 2003 and finally got the document to hold the
outline numbering so I could finish the document for an 8 am deadline.
Geez,
I thought Ventura Publisher was hard, but honestly it did make bullets and
numbering easy.

Go back ten years, look at desk top publishing style sheets and make it
simple. A style sheet is suppose to make life easier, not an endless
series
of changing text an patterns, even when you turn off "automatic update" it
still has a mind of its own.

How come something so critical to writing a good technical document is so
complex in this product? This program costs me money rather save me time.

Come on Microsoft, take a lesson from Apple, make the basic things
easy.....

James

"Stefan Blom" wrote:

"PamC via OfficeKB.com" u43222@uwe wrote in message
news:87176d9bcc948@uwe...
rgille wrote:
Thanks Pam, that is very helpful. So, to modify Heading styles
integrated
with multilevel list numbering, I go in to modify through the "Define a
New
Multilevel List" link, rather than through the Modify Styles dialog
box.
I
still think it's confusing because if you go in to modify the Heading
style
directly (by accessing the Modify Style dialog box), it doesn't seem to
allow
modification of the numbering on the Heading styles, even though there
is
a
Numbering link there.

Yes, that is confusing. I keep it straight by remembering that
multilevel
list numbering is not applied or adjusted through the modify styles
dialog
(with one (probably a bug) exception: removing numbering from styles
after
multilevel list has been changed to none).

Indeed, it is interesting that you can use the Modify Style dialog box to
clear the numbering for a style. As you point out, this might very well
be a
bug.

The other (potentially safer) way to clear multilevel numbering from
paragraph styles is via the multilevel list dialog box, choosing "(no
style)" for each numbering level.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP






Bullets and numbering is still in
the modify styles picks because you CAN apply regular numbering and
bullets
through modify styles.

Pam

Also, "Define a New Multilevel List" is used in this
case to modify the current list numbering, not to create a new list
(since
I
don't need to name a new list here).
But in any case, so long as I can
modify my heading numbering now, I'm happy. Thanks! - Bob

Yes, using Multilevel lists is the W2007 way to number headings (& of
course
there's another). The method to apply them is this: (1) Place your
cursor in
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frustrating that they changed something that previously worked well
and
intuitively.)

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