Many posts ago, I told you to select the 1, 1.1, 1.1.1 numbering that showed
Heading 1, Heading 2, etc. I thought you had done that, and that's why I
said the numbering was linked to the heading styles by default. The lists
that are linked to (no style) are not meant to be left that way; you link
them to whatever styles you want to use for the list, such as the List
Number sequence (but those would not work in Outline view, I think).
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
"Geodesic" wrote in message
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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
Note that there are (at least in my copy of Word 2007) two selections in
the
Multilevel List gallery that have 1, 1.1, 1.1.1 numbering. The first does
in
fact have all the levels linked to (no style). But if you select the one
that actually displays Heading 1, Heading 2, Heading 3, etc., you should
find that it is linked to the heading styles.
Let me get this straight: you knew that over half the numbering styles in
fact have no link with the 'corresponding' headings? Then there is not
simple
'default.' And presumably there is no reason for them to be set to '(no
style)' since they would never work in an outline.
"Stefan Blom" wrote 2/13/2010 11:12 AM PST
Once you have linked numbering levels to paragraph styles in a document,
save it as a template; creating documents based on that template would
then
let you reuse the styles (including the numbering).
So if I am in the middle of document, a note page or legal document, and
I
want to invoke a numbered outline that actually links to the outline
numbers
to the outline headers I might have to close the document, invoke a new
one
with the 'correct template,' and then paste everything back in, because
you
can't reset the basic default values, default values that are by most any
person's judgments incorrect, faulty, and a waste of time?
Of course, once one gets the the numbering system connected to the heading
listing (on a per document basis, not as a default), then one has to alter
the heading so that in the standard 'print layout view' the result still
looks like an outline?
Perhaps one could use the "define new list style" option that we haven't
even talked about. Then one might be able to eliminate the Microsoft
default
"broken connections" selections and create numbering systems that actually
link to the appropriate heading.
I'm sure that college students who simply want to create dynamic writing
outlines for term papers (with the facility to hide or expand child
sub-elements, & move elements around rapidly with shift-alt-arrow), and
who
don't know all the special vocabulary of styles, headings, templates...
will
find this staighforward.