Number Lists going wacky

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I have two documents in Word 2003 that I am trying to join together. I have
used copy/paste, and tried opening one document then importing the other.
The problem I run into is that the the auto number lists in the copy or
imported document no longer work properly. Both documents are manuals with
sections that have numbered steps. In the copied sections the numbers do not
start over with 1 where they did in the original. I have tried restart
numbering and continue numbering and neither work properly either. For
example, I have a section that has 7 steps. On the next section, I would
like to start with 1 again. It instead shows 8. Trying to restart the
numbering not only doesn't set the 8 to 1, it also screws up the previous
section numbers.

Please tell me how to get the numbering working properly in my joined
documents.

Thanks
 
Hi Jennifer

Welcome to the pain that we all have to endure - Word
numbering :-). More has been written and discussed on
this topic than any other I dare say.

There are solutions to make numbering work reliably, most
involve correct style setup and some you have to program
using VBA.

Go to the following link, click on the "Numbering" tab
and do some reading before you launch into
experimentation.

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/index.htm

Best of luck,
Dennis
 
It's very possible that your problem is a bug that is
reported in Word in article KB292073. This causes the
restarts to be stripped from numbered lists when content
is referenced as a subdocument or InsertFile.

This has been a bug for quite a while with Word (I was
fighting it in Word 97 and it's still a bug in 2002).
Does anyone know if it's fixed for 2003?

My workaround is that I don't use master/subdocuments at
all. I use the RD field code to reference documents to
build my Table of Contents and Index when I have to break
up a large document over several files.

Alisa
 
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