Numberon Styles Blacked out in Ribbon and Document

[BarnabyS]

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.

[Charles Kenyon]

How to create numbered headings or outline numbering in Ribbon Versions of Word by Shauna Kelly

[BarnabyS]

Hi Charles, thanks for the link.

I had read before posting and it is something of a definitive guide!

So much so that I started afresh and reformatted from scratch in a new document with some success.

It would be nice to rescue that big stack of legacy documents too though!

All the best,

Barney

[Charles Kenyon]

Once you have a template with the numbering you want you can apply those styles to your existing documents.

• Use the Organizer - if copying multiple styles, copy three times.
• Attach the template to the document updating styles (uncheck when done)

[Stefan Blom]

Setting up the numbered styles carefully, as discussed in the article by Shauna Kelly, is definitely the way to go. :-)

That said, when numbers are "blacked out," you can often fix the problem by running the following macro created by Doug Robbins:

Sub FixNumberingLevels()
'Macro created by MVP Doug Robbins
For Each templ In ActiveDocument.ListTemplates
    For Each lev In templ.ListLevels
        lev.Font.Reset
    Next lev
Next templ
End Sub

See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm.