I believe creating a specific template for your numbering needs
is the best approach. This is probably also the easiest way to do
it.

An alternative method is to keep two sets of styles: one numbered
and one unnumbered. Whenever you need to change your settings,
use multiple Replace operations (via EditReplace) to change from
one set of styles to another.

--
Stefan Blom


"Nadia" wrote in message
...
Thanks for your reply Stefan... I hope you see this post, I've
been away.
I understand how to link my heading styles based on a numbered
list and I
had read and applied Shauna Kellys method previously. The
problem with this
is that the Styles will then always be numbered styles (if
added to template)
and I mostly use styles for TOC and only occasionally for
numbered lists so I
dont want permanently numbered styles. (I know...I know.... all
I have to do
is create a new template specifically for numbering).... Im not
trying to be
difficult but in previous versions it was easy to apply styles
to headings
you wanted to be numbered then select the entire document apply
numbering
based on heading styles and bingo! only text with styles were
numbered....no
dramas.... I hate v2003......there Ive had my whinge.

thanks again for your reply Stefan

"Stefan Blom" wrote:

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.

--
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!!