that's truly inspired, thank you!

Unfortunately...the newest direction from on high is that they actually WANT the scheme I described in "A couple more things"...they want the numbering to restart in each section.

HEADING 1
1.1 Heading 2
1.1.1 Heading 3
1.2 Heading 2
HEADING 1
1.1 Heading 2
1.1.1 Heading 3
1.2 Heading 2

This isn't unreasonable; this is a desktop procedures manual, and individual users will essentially "pull out" the sections that apply to their specific functional area. So restarting numbering within each functional area makes sense.

And I guess I figured out how to do that already

Thanks, Ulo!

Now I have a TOC formatting issue. I'll post that in a new thread.

Caroline