If you access the Bullets and Numbering dialog box via the Format
menu, pick a numbering scheme and then click OK, numbering will be
applied to the selected text, which is not what you want. Instead,
link the heading styles, which you already applied to your text, to a
numbering scheme as described at
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numb...Numbering.html.

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Stefan Blom


"Nadia" wrote in message
...
I know how painful numbering is in Word 2003 and I have read all the
postings
on numbering problems...but I cant seem to find anything to address
what's
happening on a document I have inherited.

I have applied styles to the relevant headings that I want
numbered,i.e.,
Heading1, Heading2 and Heading3. The rest of the document is
"normal".

When I select the document and apply outline numbering based on
heading
styles it changes all my "normal" paragraphs to Heading1 styles and
obviously
includes them in all the numbering. I have checked the Style for
following
paragraph is "normal" and I have switched off Autoformat as you
type.....
what am I missing!!