Sorry to come late to the party, but it occurs to me that this may be a case
for LISTNUM :-). Use an alternative style for the non-heading numbered
paras, and place a level 4 LISTNUM field at the start of those paragraphs.
(Use para style to adjust indents and tabs as required.) Provided there is
only the one numbering sequence in the document, an unnamed LISTNUM will
pick up from the heading numbering.

Agree the TOC issues - though if these paras are not really headings at all
(common in legal docs, I think) then they'll either need to be excluded from
any TOC, or given some shorthand title via a TC field, I guess.

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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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Bob has a good point. If there is a TOC that includes Level 4 and you
manually remove Bold from the "headings," they'll turn up the reverse
(bold)
in the TOC. If there is any portion of the paragraph that could be treated
as a heading, you could use a style separator or the technique described
in
http://home.earthlink.net/~wordfaqs/RunInSidehead.htm

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"Robert M. Franz" wrote in message
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Hello Keith

Keith wrote:
Thanks for the quick response, Robert.

You're welcome!


I've been just as perplexed as you with regard to this document...

It's a legal document (~900 pages) for a city and it lays out their
building codes, etc.

I should've guessed. OK, so we put away the idea of "understanding" and
try to "get it done". :-)


[stripped sample legal outline up to level 3 outline headings]
A. [BOLD] Vivamus sed elit at diam laoreet auctor

B. [BOLD Praesent ornare venenatis pede

C. [BOLD] Vivamus auctor feugiat magna

Aliquam diam risus, luctus non, eleifend ut, lobortis et, dui.
Donec vel urna ac dui ornare vulputate. Donec eros diam, malesuada
vitae, consequat vitae, molestie quis, orci. Nunc vel odio.

Sometimes, however, based upon the content or the author, I guess,
outline level 4 (the capitalized letters A, B and C, above) contain
"meaty" content and are entire sentences or paragraphs. Unfortunately,
there are too many of these to have someone go through and add short
headers or titles and make the sentences "bodies" instead. In
addition, we cannot convert these troublesome sections into numbered
lists.

I have next to no first-hand experience with legal documents, and the
small bit is surely in a jurisdiction totally different to where you
are. [I.e.: Devour what follows with an even bigger grain of salt then
all the rest I'm dishing up usually! :-)]

Converting those large headings into shorter ones with accompanying text
would be the most preferable solution IMHO. Especially since you mention
it *could* be done if only you had enough resources. I just wonder: Does
this document have a table of contents (TOC) [I would think so], and up
to what level? What do you expect to show up in the TOC from these
not-anymore-bold Heading 4 entries?

2cents
Robert
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