Hello Everyone,



As a background, I've used MS Word since the mid 1990's, creating styles and templates for reasonably complicated reports. I had no problem creating heading styles with outline numbering. Up until the MS Office 2008 version. I know it's a problem for 2007 onwards PC users as well, there is moaning all over the internet about it.

Others have posted about it, but to illustrate, headings don't renumber properly:

1.0 HEADING 1

1.1 Heading 2

1.1.1. Heading 3

1.1.1.1. Heading 4

2.0 HEADING 1

1.2 Heading 2

1.1.2. Heading 3

1.1.1.2. Heading 4


My first question is, where is the comprehensive instruction, manual, help for this problem? My specific question is, where is the support for Mac users? I've tried to project from PC to Mac version instructions from Shauna Kelly's site, but it doesn't seem to apply to the Mac version.

Please help, my next option is to switch to Mac Pages, because at least if Pages has problems, Apple has decent support! I don't want to do it though, but after spending weeks trying to resolve this problem I don't feel like there are many options left.

Also my second question, I genuinely want to know what the apparent advantage of the new system is? The old one was quite intuitive. There must be some advantage, as despite all the complaining that everyone is doing about it, it appears to have made it into later versions as well?

I would suggest asking on a Mac-specific forum such as http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macword. The only suggestion I would give is to Shauna Kelly's How to create numbered headings or outline numbering in Word 2007 and Word 2010. Numbering has been a problem in Word since at least Word 97 if not set up in this way. If you haven't had problems before, you have been lucky.


The new interface is easier for new users. More of the commands are at or near the top level. It is here to stay and other software manufacturers are copying it. It is hard for experienced users to switch because familiar commands are in different places. If you know keyboard shortcuts from earlier versions, they still work.

I wasn't talking about the interface.