Thanks again everyone! That page of Shauna's is gold. Takes all the mystery and doubt out of this Word style numbering stuff. Finally.

I and many others agree. It was based on work done by John McGhie but Shauna lays it out step-by-step. You can find more numbering resources,including John's article, through my page on Numbering in Microsoft Word but you may never need to do so.

Well. I am running into a bizarre problem now with a numbered style I created. Technically I don't know if it's a numbering problem. I was going to start a new thread about it, but what the hell.

The numbering itself works bitchin for these "Requirements" styles. That is the name I gave the numbered list. The three paragraph style it's applied to are Req Lev 1, Req Lev 2, and Req Lev 3. For some reason that confounds me, The numbering for Req Lev 1 is "redacted". The other two styles extend from this one, nothing different about them. but they are unaffected. Anyone ever see this?

To make it stranger, in an earlier version of the doc I'd emailed out for review on last Wednesday, all recipients were seeing this blacked out number. But I was at that time on my machine seeing "Req. 1" as it should appear. Then yesterday I'd closed then reopened the template and the field is now blacked out.

Then after reading through Shauna's page I created an entirely new set of req styles (and deleted the old one). And this level 1 requirement number is still blacked out.

Let me know if I need to provide any additional settings info.

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Thank you Charles for updating the thread title.

FWIW, I eventually fixed this new issue the way that typically works for me. I went around the problem. Created a new numbering style and applied it. Something was corrupt about the first couple. Keeping my fingers crossed for now.