Word 2003 hangs when starting automatic numbered lists

[Paulexander]

I have a very frustrating problem with Word 2003.

One of my users needs to frequently create Outlined docs. Whenever she
starts a numbered list, the Automatic numbered Lists feature kicks in , and
word appears to stall or hang for several minutes (I timed it at about 2.5
minutes once).

If I turn off Automatic Numbered Lists, the problem goes away. However, she
needs this feature, and I would like to repair it, not disable it.

So far, I have the following, to no avail:
- Removed normal.dot, and restarted Word to recreate
- Run Office repair from Add/Remove Programs
- Turned off Automatic Numbered lists and Automatic Bulleted lists, and then
turned it back on.
- Opened "Bullets and Numbering" and clicked "Reset" to set the styles back
tot he defaults

I have searched all other Microsoft support forums and Technet, and cannot
seem to find this one.

Does anyone have any ideas for me?
Thanks

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It would be more useful to create a template with appropriate styles linked
to an appropriate outline-numbered list template (see
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numbering/OutlineNumbering.html). Styles can
be applied manually or by using keyboard shortcuts or toolbar buttons and
promotion/demotion accomplished in any of the usual ways.

 

[Paulexander]

This looks promising, thank you. I will try this when I can get onto her
machine

-Paul