Why would I use the List Style instead of incorporating the numbe.

[Wendy]

I work with the legal community and often need to stucture outline numbering
for them. I have set up the outline using paragraph styles in older versions
of Word. But now in 2003 I am wondeirng if the list styles would be worth
investigating.

Anyone use them? In what ways and why?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

For now I would stick with the tried-and-true. The list styles are
essentially undocumented, and none of the numbering gurus have experimented
with them enough to be able to help you if you run into trouble.

 

[CyberTaz]

Have you looked at Format>Bullets and Numbering>Outline
Numbered>[Customize...]? |:>)

 

[Klaus Linke]

Hi Wendy,

Some people prefer to apply numbering independently of the paragraph style, and that's what list styles seem to be for.
Usually, I find numbered paragraph styles more "natural", but if you already have lots of paragraph styles and want to use one consistent way of numbering for a couple of them, maybe list styles can be useful.

A problem with auto-numbering, especially in the legal community, has always been that it usually breaks if you apply restarts and then copy into another document. Unfortunately, list styles have the very same problem.
I find that pretty disappointing, considering that list styles were introduced several Word versions after the original bugs were known.

Regards,
Klaus