I've used Shauna Kelly's instructions for creating multilevel lists, and they were extremely helpful. However, I encountered a couple apparent bugs from the instructions, and those bugs were very frustrating. In the interest of helping others, I wanted to describe the bugs here.

In the Shauna Kelly web-site, there's no way to post comments. This present forum (MS Office Forums) was returned by a Google search on Shauna's instructions, and it seemed like a good place to post about those bugs.

Both of those bugs pertain to creating multilevel-lists for headings, using the instructions here, for Word 2010:
http://shaunakelly.com/word/numberin...10.html?p=1768


Bug #1: After creating the multilevel list, I encountered a bug in copying headings and pasting them, e.g., into the same document, or another document. After pasting the headings, they would not promote or demote properly. In particular, the heading numbers would not change, e.g., after pasting heading "1.1 <heading text>", promoting the heading would not change it to "1 <heading text>"

The only solution I've found is to do a Word find-and-replace for a pasted heading style. The find is for the heading style (e.g., Heading 2), and the replace is to the exact same heading style (e.g., Heading 2). "Replace All" is then used. Afterwards, the pasted "Heading 2" headings can be properly promoted and demoted.

To save time, I wrote a VBA macro to do this for Heading 1 to Heading 9. I assigned the macro to a function key. So, whenever I copy-and-paste headings, I use that macro to fix the bug. (If you don't know how to write VBA code, you can record a macro to do the replace for Heading 1, then copy-and-paste that VBA code 8 times, to do the replace for Heading 2 to 9. You'll need to edit the copied code to update the heading numbers, to 2 to 9, respectively.)


Bug #2: There's a step in Shauna Kelly's instructions that was misleading to me, and the way I interpreted that step didn't work. It was very frustrating and after more than an hour I figured out the problem in her instructions, and the correct way.

Unfortunately, I don't remember what that unclear step was. I've used Shauna Kelly's instructions twice. The first time was 5 years ago, and the second time was 6 months ago. I encountered this problem both times. I wish I had recorded the problem and solution. Anyway, if you can't get Shauna Kelly's instructions to work, it may be due to that misleading step.