WD97: Outline Numbering Links to All Styles After Style Copy (165470)

SYMPTOMS

If you create a numbering scheme that links to several heading styles and then copy a few of those heading styles to a new document or template using the Organizer, all of the heading style links will be copied to the new document or template rather than just the heading style links pertaining to the heading styles that were copied.

WORKAROUND

To break the heading style numbering links so that only the links related to the heading styles that were copied are available, follow these steps:

Open the document or template that you copied the heading styles to.
Position the insertion point in a paragraph that is formatted with a heading style.
On the Format menu, click Bullets And Numbering.
Click Customize, and then click OK.
Undo the numbering by pressing CTRL+Z on the keyboard (or, on the Edit menu, click Undo).

This breaks the numbering links to styles that were not copied over to the document or template.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

This problem has been corrected in Word 2000.

REFERENCES

For more information on using the Numbering feature, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

159943 WD97: General Information About Bullets and Numbering

For more information about numbering, click the Office Assistant, type "numbering," click Search, and then click one of the following topics:

Troubleshoot bulleted or numbered lists
Add bullets or numbers to lists
Modify bullet or number formats
Learn about bullets and numbering on Web pages
Number cells in a table