Right, I am beginning to think that I have wasted an awful lot of time learning lists to have found out at the end of the day that it has been absolutely pointless, I wonder if anyone can help?

As I said I am trying to do a big paste of numbered sub headings (up to 40) from a document whilst retaining given numbering for reference within the document.

I have tried the following with these results:

1. Copy and paste single item, paste as plain text (Keep text only)- Success, albeit I then have to re-colour code.
2. Copy all relevant items by right clicking on appropriate style in ribbon and choosing select all, right click, copy and paste as plain text.-Failure, last item is correct but the rest renumber from 1.1.1.1.
3. Copy multiple items using ctrl button- Failure, last item is correct but the rest renumber from 1.1.1.1.
4. Use Macro from here: https://www.thedoctools.com/word-mac...-when-pasting/ -Results the same as 2,3 above.
5. Reference as bookmarks- If inserted as paragraph text then numbering is started from new sub section paragraph number. If pasted as Paragraph number and then paragraph text the orginal number is inserted but it is preceeded by new sequential number.
6. Reference as numbered heading- This does work but it is a two stage operation, finding and inserting first the paragraph number, then the text, then editing spacing and colour.

So, number 6 is only real working solution and it is much worse than the aggregate copy and paste with the Ctrl button that I used to do when I was doing all the indexing and referencing myself.

Three days in..... can anyone help me out of my despair?!?!?

Thanks for reading!

Barney.