You can either create a document with the headings you like and save it as a
template or create it as a template from scratch (see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...platePart1.htm). If you
don't intend to use this template for anything but the current document,
then you could just as well use the document itself and skip the step of
creating a template. So you have a choice:

1. Format your document with the desired styles and layout and then use
Insert | File to insert the stripped document; or

2. Format your document/template with the desired styles and layout and save
as a template. Use File | New to create a new document based on the template
and then Insert | File.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"c_angler" wrote in message
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Suzanne
I was hoping to avoid having to do it this way, but here goes.
I just have another question about step 7 Insert file, to insert the
stripped copy into my new template.
Is this assuming that I created a document with the headings I like, saved
it as a template, then insert file, choose that template, then click ok?
Can you explain this part a little more?
Thanks

"c_angler" wrote:

I am trying to number sub headings in chapters. All chapter titles are
working with Header 1. Now I need each chapter sub heading to be
numbered
like this:
for Chapter 1: 1.1,1.2,1.3 for Chapter 2: 2.1, 2.2, 2.3.
I want two digits showing. I have gone to a Header 2 for that, and
tried to
modify numbering, even unchecked the box that says restart numbering
after,
and all my subheads throughout the multi chapter document are labeled
1.1.
What am I doing wrong?
I have read all the answers I can find in the group session and still
can't
fix this thing! The document was written with little or no styles
applied,
and I am having to do that now.
Thanks in advance.