Did you do all the assigning of numbering-style and indenting under
the List Format panel of Heading 1? (You need to identify your version
of Word to get step-by-step directions.)
On Dec 23, 6:31 pm, ArielZusya <ArielZu...[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:
[Quoted Text] > I'm pulling my hair out on this one. Here's my trouble. I want to create a
> documents with some basic outline structure:
>
> I.
> A.
> 1.
> i.
> a.
> 1.
> i.
> a.
> 1.
>
> I later want the document to be able to automatically generate a table of
> contents. I decided to use the Heading styles to control how this will all
> look later. I set Heading 1 to be numbered using I. and to start at 0" from
> the left margin but have a hanging indent of .25". I further, stripped the
> funky formatting that seems to be the default for heading 1 and changed it to
> Automatic for color, 12pt Times New Roman no bold or italics, and set the
> line spacing to zero. I then went in to Heading 2 and did the same only
> changed the left margin to .25" and the number to A. I also set Heading 2 to
> be based on Heading 1. I'm not sure if that's necessary but I noticed that if
> I tried to have the program do all of this itself it always did that. I did
> the same with Heading 3 changing the left indent to .75 and so on through
> Heading 9.
>
> Everything looked great until I noticed that the heading 4 under the second
> instance of heading 3 didn't have it's numbering restarting at 1. in other
> words:
>
> I.
> A.
> 1.
> i.
> ii.
> iii.
> 2.
> iv.
> B.
> 3.
> 2.
> C.
> etc.
>
> If I told the program to restart the numbering at 1 it ignored all the other
> formatting that I so painstakingly implemented. I decided to ignore that
> problem, finish inputing the data, and then go back to the style profiles and
> fix it there. When I made the adjustment in the style profile it randomly
> changed parts and not others. What am I doing wrong? I can't seem to see a
> logic in all of this and I'm getting really frustrated. Please help! Thanks!
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