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need help with Numbering - Restart Numbering not working
I've created two essentially identical paragraph styles, named Number
1 and Number 2, that I use for numbered lists at many places in a 250 page document. For some reason the right click "restart numbering" feature is not working for style Number 2. It simply does nothing. And in the Bullets and Numbering dialog the "restart numbering" radio button is grayed out. Can anyone suggest why this is happening? Style Number 1 is working fine, with many number restarts throughout the file. If anyone wants to see this, a short version of the file (200k) is at www.xlrotor.com/temp/xlrotor_manual.doc and near the end there's a list that starts at 20 that I can't get to start at 1. Thanks, Brian Murphy Austin, Texas |
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need help with Numbering - Restart Numbering not working
If you are using a recent version of Word, you'll find it safer to use the
right-click (context) menu to restart numbering. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Numbering/...tartFromUI.htm. If everything else fails, force a restart by inserting a LISTNUM field at the end of the previous list (that makes use of the Number 2 paragraph style). See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Numbering/...tByLISTNUM.htm. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP wrote in message ... I've created two essentially identical paragraph styles, named Number 1 and Number 2, that I use for numbered lists at many places in a 250 page document. For some reason the right click "restart numbering" feature is not working for style Number 2. It simply does nothing. And in the Bullets and Numbering dialog the "restart numbering" radio button is grayed out. Can anyone suggest why this is happening? Style Number 1 is working fine, with many number restarts throughout the file. If anyone wants to see this, a short version of the file (200k) is at www.xlrotor.com/temp/xlrotor_manual.doc and near the end there's a list that starts at 20 that I can't get to start at 1. Thanks, Brian Murphy Austin, Texas |
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Thank you very much, Stefan. You are light years ahead of me.
As it turns out, the list formatting is done by macros I am writing. The source document is a rather large RTF file created by an old Windows Help authoring took called ForeHelp. I am not an experienced Word macro writer, and I've been using the macro recorder heavily. The file comes in with its own numbering styles that are definitely messed up, and I have been unsuccessful trying to repair them. So my macro creates two new numbering styles, and applies them in place of the messed up ones. Following your URL given below, I need to read through the web pages about working with numbering in macros. Right now my macros are using ListGalleries because that is what the macro recorder gave me. My two numbering styles are presently "paragraph" styles and not "list" styles. I find that I cannot use the LISTNUM field. I think I will go back and try to create them as "list" styles, and see if that clears up the problem. Creating macros to fix up this document is turning into a much bigger job than I wanted. Just when I think I'm done, a new problem pops up. Hopefully, this numbering thing will be the end of it. Cheers, Brian On Jan 7, 5:50 am, "Stefan Blom" wrote: If you are using a recent version of Word, you'll find it safer to use the right-click (context) menu to restart numbering. Seehttp://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Numbering/ListRestartFromUI.htm. If everything else fails, force a restart by inserting a LISTNUM field at the end of the previous list (that makes use of the Number 2 paragraph style). Seehttp://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Numbering/ListRestartByLISTNUM.htm. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP wrote in message ... I've created two essentially identical paragraph styles, named Number 1 and Number 2, that I use for numbered lists at many places in a 250 page document. For some reason the right click "restart numbering" feature is not working for style Number 2. It simply does nothing. And in the Bullets and Numbering dialog the "restart numbering" radio button is grayed out. Can anyone suggest why this is happening? Style Number 1 is working fine, with many number restarts throughout the file. If anyone wants to see this, a short version of the file (200k) is at www.xlrotor.com/temp/xlrotor_manual.doc and near the end there's a list that starts at 20 that I can't get to start at 1. Thanks, Brian Murphy Austin, Texas |
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I have learned one more thing about the misbehaving numbering.
If I go to the spot where the "restart" command doesn't work, and press "enter" to insert an empty numbered paragraph, then move to the next paragraph (which had been the first paragraph), I can now apply the restart command. Then I delete the inserted paragraph. The result is I've got restart applied where I wanted, and it seems to behave like it should. Brian On Jan 7, 5:50 am, "Stefan Blom" wrote: If you are using a recent version of Word, you'll find it safer to use the right-click (context) menu to restart numbering. Seehttp://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Numbering/ListRestartFromUI.htm. If everything else fails, force a restart by inserting a LISTNUM field at the end of the previous list (that makes use of the Number 2 paragraph style). Seehttp://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Numbering/ListRestartByLISTNUM.htm. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP wrote in message ... I've created two essentially identical paragraph styles, named Number 1 and Number 2, that I use for numbered lists at many places in a 250 page document. For some reason the right click "restart numbering" feature is not working for style Number 2. It simply does nothing. And in the Bullets and Numbering dialog the "restart numbering" radio button is grayed out. Can anyone suggest why this is happening? Style Number 1 is working fine, with many number restarts throughout the file. If anyone wants to see this, a short version of the file (200k) is at www.xlrotor.com/temp/xlrotor_manual.doc and near the end there's a list that starts at 20 that I can't get to start at 1. Thanks, Brian Murphy Austin, Texas |
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FWIW, I would avoid macros and just used style-based numbering throughout.
The most trouble-free way to restart numbering is to use an outline list (see http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numb...Numbering.html for instructions on how to set up almost unbreakable numbering) with a dummy higher-level style (which can be unnumbered); see http://word.mvps.org/faqs/numbering/...tfromstyle.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA wrote in message ... Thank you very much, Stefan. You are light years ahead of me. As it turns out, the list formatting is done by macros I am writing. The source document is a rather large RTF file created by an old Windows Help authoring took called ForeHelp. I am not an experienced Word macro writer, and I've been using the macro recorder heavily. The file comes in with its own numbering styles that are definitely messed up, and I have been unsuccessful trying to repair them. So my macro creates two new numbering styles, and applies them in place of the messed up ones. Following your URL given below, I need to read through the web pages about working with numbering in macros. Right now my macros are using ListGalleries because that is what the macro recorder gave me. My two numbering styles are presently "paragraph" styles and not "list" styles. I find that I cannot use the LISTNUM field. I think I will go back and try to create them as "list" styles, and see if that clears up the problem. Creating macros to fix up this document is turning into a much bigger job than I wanted. Just when I think I'm done, a new problem pops up. Hopefully, this numbering thing will be the end of it. Cheers, Brian On Jan 7, 5:50 am, "Stefan Blom" wrote: If you are using a recent version of Word, you'll find it safer to use the right-click (context) menu to restart numbering. Seehttp://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Numbering/ListRestartFromUI.htm. If everything else fails, force a restart by inserting a LISTNUM field at the end of the previous list (that makes use of the Number 2 paragraph style). Seehttp://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Numbering/ListRestartByLISTNUM.htm. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP wrote in message ... I've created two essentially identical paragraph styles, named Number 1 and Number 2, that I use for numbered lists at many places in a 250 page document. For some reason the right click "restart numbering" feature is not working for style Number 2. It simply does nothing. And in the Bullets and Numbering dialog the "restart numbering" radio button is grayed out. Can anyone suggest why this is happening? Style Number 1 is working fine, with many number restarts throughout the file. If anyone wants to see this, a short version of the file (200k) is at www.xlrotor.com/temp/xlrotor_manual.doc and near the end there's a list that starts at 20 that I can't get to start at 1. Thanks, Brian Murphy Austin, Texas |
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Thank you, Suzanne. I am headed out of town for the rest of the week,
but I will check this out when I get back. I am forced to use macros because of where the document is coming from, but I'm always looking for a better way to do things. Brian On Jan 7, 8:37 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: FWIW, I would avoid macros and just used style-based numbering throughout. The most trouble-free way to restart numbering is to use an outline list (seehttp://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numbering/OutlineNumbering.htmlfor instructions on how to set up almost unbreakable numbering) with a dummy higher-level style (which can be unnumbered); seehttp://word.mvps.org/faqs/numbering/listrestartfromstyle.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA wrote in message ... Thank you very much, Stefan. You are light years ahead of me. As it turns out, the list formatting is done by macros I am writing. The source document is a rather large RTF file created by an old Windows Help authoring took called ForeHelp. I am not an experienced Word macro writer, and I've been using the macro recorder heavily. The file comes in with its own numbering styles that are definitely messed up, and I have been unsuccessful trying to repair them. So my macro creates two new numbering styles, and applies them in place of the messed up ones. Following your URL given below, I need to read through the web pages about working with numbering in macros. Right now my macros are using ListGalleries because that is what the macro recorder gave me. My two numbering styles are presently "paragraph" styles and not "list" styles. I find that I cannot use the LISTNUM field. I think I will go back and try to create them as "list" styles, and see if that clears up the problem. Creating macros to fix up this document is turning into a much bigger job than I wanted. Just when I think I'm done, a new problem pops up. Hopefully, this numbering thing will be the end of it. Cheers, Brian On Jan 7, 5:50 am, "Stefan Blom" wrote: If you are using a recent version of Word, you'll find it safer to use the right-click (context) menu to restart numbering. Seehttp://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Numbering/ListRestartFromUI.htm. If everything else fails, force a restart by inserting a LISTNUM field at the end of the previous list (that makes use of the Number 2 paragraph style). Seehttp://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Numbering/ListRestartByLISTNUM.htm. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP wrote in message ... I've created two essentially identical paragraph styles, named Number 1 and Number 2, that I use for numbered lists at many places in a 250 page document. For some reason the right click "restart numbering" feature is not working for style Number 2. It simply does nothing. And in the Bullets and Numbering dialog the "restart numbering" radio button is grayed out. Can anyone suggest why this is happening? Style Number 1 is working fine, with many number restarts throughout the file. If anyone wants to see this, a short version of the file (200k) is at www.xlrotor.com/temp/xlrotor_manual.doc and near the end there's a list that starts at 20 that I can't get to start at 1. Thanks, Brian Murphy Austin, Texas |
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Using a macro to apply the style would at least be a step up.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA wrote in message ... Thank you, Suzanne. I am headed out of town for the rest of the week, but I will check this out when I get back. I am forced to use macros because of where the document is coming from, but I'm always looking for a better way to do things. Brian On Jan 7, 8:37 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: FWIW, I would avoid macros and just used style-based numbering throughout. The most trouble-free way to restart numbering is to use an outline list (seehttp://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numbering/OutlineNumbering.htmlfor instructions on how to set up almost unbreakable numbering) with a dummy higher-level style (which can be unnumbered); seehttp://word.mvps.org/faqs/numbering/listrestartfromstyle.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA wrote in message ... Thank you very much, Stefan. You are light years ahead of me. As it turns out, the list formatting is done by macros I am writing. The source document is a rather large RTF file created by an old Windows Help authoring took called ForeHelp. I am not an experienced Word macro writer, and I've been using the macro recorder heavily. The file comes in with its own numbering styles that are definitely messed up, and I have been unsuccessful trying to repair them. So my macro creates two new numbering styles, and applies them in place of the messed up ones. Following your URL given below, I need to read through the web pages about working with numbering in macros. Right now my macros are using ListGalleries because that is what the macro recorder gave me. My two numbering styles are presently "paragraph" styles and not "list" styles. I find that I cannot use the LISTNUM field. I think I will go back and try to create them as "list" styles, and see if that clears up the problem. Creating macros to fix up this document is turning into a much bigger job than I wanted. Just when I think I'm done, a new problem pops up. Hopefully, this numbering thing will be the end of it. Cheers, Brian On Jan 7, 5:50 am, "Stefan Blom" wrote: If you are using a recent version of Word, you'll find it safer to use the right-click (context) menu to restart numbering. Seehttp://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Numbering/ListRestartFromUI.htm. If everything else fails, force a restart by inserting a LISTNUM field at the end of the previous list (that makes use of the Number 2 paragraph style). Seehttp://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Numbering/ListRestartByLISTNUM.htm. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP wrote in message ... I've created two essentially identical paragraph styles, named Number 1 and Number 2, that I use for numbered lists at many places in a 250 page document. For some reason the right click "restart numbering" feature is not working for style Number 2. It simply does nothing. And in the Bullets and Numbering dialog the "restart numbering" radio button is grayed out. Can anyone suggest why this is happening? Style Number 1 is working fine, with many number restarts throughout the file. If anyone wants to see this, a short version of the file (200k) is at www.xlrotor.com/temp/xlrotor_manual.doc and near the end there's a list that starts at 20 that I can't get to start at 1. Thanks, Brian Murphy Austin, Texas |
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