Thanks,

This is normal numbering rather than outline numbering, but setting indents
via the numbering dialogs rather than the paragraph dialogs helped a lot.

Also setting the indents of the Style closer to those Word kept trying to
revert to when the numbering was restarted has now given me something I can
live with without having to resort to macros to tidy up the mess.

Thanks for the help everyone.


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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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Keep in mind that indents in numbered styles must be set in the Numbering
dialog, not in the Paragraph dialog. For outline numbering, this must be
done by going through Format | Style beginning with the top-level style,
as
described in
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numb...Numbering.html. Note also
that this works correctly only if the numbering scheme is linked to the
styles.

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"Paul" wrote in message
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Hi,

I am trying to set up a template in Word 2003 to be used by a number of
people.

As formatting has caused problems with this document/group of people
before,
I am trying to create a style for pretty much every sort of text that
will
be used.

I have modified the inbuilt numbering styles (e.g. List Number 1, List
Number 2) which are flush with the left margin. These work fine unless
you
choose to restart the numbering, as soon as you do, the list you are
working
on reformats, changing the settings for the left margin for the first and
subsequent lines in the paragraph and adding a tab character.

It seems that restarting the numbering (or going into customize and
setting
the start number as 1) also changes the paragraph settings (to something
undesirable for this document). The user can change the paragrah settings
back to their 'correct' settings using the ruler bar, but this is
frustrating, time consuming and prone to creating inconsistencies in the
document which is exactly what we are trying to avoid.

Can you please explain how I can set up a style that will not change when
I
try to restart the numbering, or a way I can restart numbering with
messing
up the paragraph settings.

TIA

Paul

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