Help with List NUM

[Kevin Anthony Jones]

For some reason, while using MS Word 2002, some of my
ListNum fields do not effectively work. When I attempt to
apply a ListNum using my normal settings, instead of
showing the normal setting, the program displays a
rectangular box, and when I convert/update my separate
document into a larger document using the IncludeText
feature. The numbers don't seem to restart like most of
the others. I'm using the same format, yet some of the
lists refuse to restart. Any ideas? Thanks!

KAJ

 

[Margaret Aldis]

Hi Kevin

Can you give more details of what LISTNUM field settings you are using.

Is this an unnamed LISTNUM, a default format, or your own custom format?

Are the fields (and/or the referenced number format) formatted to use a
different font?

Are you explicitly restarting sequences using the /s flag? Or is this a mix
of numbered styles and LISTNUM fields?

 

[Margaret Aldis]

Hi Kevin

Hi Kevin

My guess would be this might be a positional thing. The unnamed LISTNUM
references the previous list - so if, for instance, the last list before
your field was a bullet you would see a bullet.

I wonder if you have some styles here that perhaps have a symbol that works
in a particular font (coming from the style not the list template) but which
an unformatted LISTNUM field can't display.

 

[Kevin Anthony Jones]

Ms. Aldias

I noticed on one of the separate documents that I check
that the bullet feature had carried over like you
indicated earlier. I tried instilling the default options
of the feature, but it didn't seem to solve the problem.
Is there another appropriate method of restarting these
listed numbers? Thanks!

KAJ

 

[Margaret Aldis]

Hi Kevin

LISTNUMs pick up the numbering scheme from the last previous list, so you'll
see a bullet if your field is positioned anywhere after a bullet list.

The key for safe restarting using the LISTNUM method is to put the 'zero'
LISTNUM field at the *end* of each list. That way you can be quite certain
that whenever or however that numbering sequence is used again it will start
at 1.

There are other ways of restarting, but I would stick with this now you're
nearly there.