Hello All.

I hope you can help, after many years of Word use I am now retraining and need to use the numbering and heading functions properly. I have been learning for two days (non stop)

I am using word 2010 and Windows 10.

I have got where I want to be, table of contents inserted, sections named and numbered, sub headings names and numbered and special headings, named numbered and coloured. Style saved as a *.dotx.

Everything is good, except that when I close and reopen the document, all the numbers alongside the heading titles in the ribbon are black rectangles and all the numbers in the lists are blacked out.

Searching elsewhere I found lots of discussion here: https://superuser.com/questions/2380...er-blacked-out and the first solution involving highlighting any of the list numbers and reapplying format does work.

However, there then follows a long list of alternatives, some of which seem to work and some of which don't, all are more complicated than would prefer them to be.

Has anybody here got a definitive answer on this and where my problem lies?

Apologies for the long first post and the external link. I hope that you can help me.

Best of wishes, Barney.