Hello,



I have just started at a new customer and now I have found some pretty unsuaul behaviour when dealing with their standard word templates.

The template as custom Format templates for the headings. which were pretty messy to start with but I got most of the problems fixed by now.

However one Things leaves me completely clueless. Whenever I paste any text in the document directly folowing one of these headings it handles the pastet text as an extension of the list and creates one new heading 1 or each paragraph.

OF course I can fix this by select "do not merge List" wes option but I am not reallly looking forward to doing this for the next few years whenever i paste a line into the document.

Any idea which messed up configuration is responsible for this bevaior? I checked anything I could find in the format template but nothing would fix this.

Thanx in advance

Matthias

From where are you pasting? Is the source text formatted as a numbered list?

Which formatting is applied to the text paragraph following the heading? Has it been formatted with direct formatting or is it style-based?

Note that if numbering is style-based, number formatting will be more predictable.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional

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