Brad Millspaugh wrote:
When using Word standard outline format, changing numbering in the body of
text changes previous and subsequent numbering - why?

Numbering in Word is an especially fragile "beast." You can do it in 100
ways, and 95 of them will break sooner or later. There's a whole bunch
of articles describing how you should do it right:

Ins and outs of bullets and numbering in Word
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...376791033.aspx

See the section on "Numbering, bullets, Headings, Outlines" (by Shauna
Kelly)
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/
How to restart style-based numbering (by Margaret Aldis)
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/numbering/...artMethods.htm
Word's numbering explained (by John McGhie)
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Numbering/...gExplained.htm
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...a616aec?hl=en&

But, at first, maybe this article applies he

Formatting applied to one paragraph affects the entire document (by
Suzanne Barnhill)
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...eformatted.htm

HTH
Robert
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