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> OK, I admit it - I'm humbled by the MS Word (Style & Autonumbering)
> functionality!
> After umpteen years of writing, editing, & dtp using Interleaf &
> Frame, this
> MS Weird has the best of me!!
>
Not to put too fine a point on it, Word's automatic numbering system is one
godawful mess. I'm involved in efforts to persuade Microsoft to clean it up
next version, but I don't know whether or to what extent I might succeed.
You are not alone in having troubles with it. This article on the Word MVP
web site explains (in a lot of detail) what is going on, and why you have
trouble with it. I have to warn you, it makes fairly gruesome reading! It
also points to another article which provides some VBA-based mechanisms for
cleaning up the mess.
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