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Subject:Re: No Numbering "Restart" Available From:afargas -at- condor -dot- nrl -dot- navy -dot- mil To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 23 Apr 2003 15:09:33 -0600
Jeff Hanvey wrote:
> The most common, and most stable, way of handling numbering is to use field
> codes.
Hi, I'm a list newbie (first post!) and I wanted to chime in on this.
Mr. Hanvey is absolutely right. After creating a 200+ page doc with
hundreds of numbered lists, I learned the painful way that Word just
doesn't handle lists well.
I used the field-code method that he advocates for both numbered and
lettered lists, and tied them both to macros that put in the number and
format the paragraph to the right style.
I finally decided to use this method for bulleted lists too, because I
started having mega trouble with that as well in Word. I use a couple of
unicode symbols as my bullets.
Anyway, if you want more info on what I have set up, please send me an
e-mail. I know exactly how frustrating it is to try and standardize lists
in Word.
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