# Help? MSWeird numbering question (long) **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 17, 2005, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-msweird-numbering-question-long/285222 "2005-01-17T18:56:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2005, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-msweird-numbering-question-long/285222/1 "2005-01-17T18:56:48Z")
MSWeird numbering question Well, two questions. (1) Is there a user forum for Word, similar to Word Perfect Universe? (2) Can anyone help with my specific problem, which is– ``` I have a document with many numbered lists. *Hundreds* of numbered lists. ``` Some of them are defined as a style, others are defined as an outline, and others I’m not sure about. The document came to me this way. I made editing changes and format changes, and now the numbering is all screwed up. To wit: the document is treating most of the numbered lists\* as all part of the same list, so I get, in one section, (1), (2), (3) and in the next section, which should be 1-2-3 again, I get (4), (5), (6). Of course I can go format\>bullets and numbering\>restart numbering, and I have done this, and it worked fine–until I closed and reopened the document. From [word.mvps.org](http://word.mvps.org) I got a VBA fix,\*\* which is supposed to restart the numbering and certain markers. It did in fact start renumbering at the markers but ONLY at the markers so I got, for instance (1) (219) (220) and in the next paragraph (1) (222) (223). In other words, one, two, skip-a-few, 99, 100, [These are actual numbers.] I would convert the whole thing to Word Perfect except about a quarter of it is in Chinese characters; I don’t know how the author got them, but they don’t convert. Or rather, they convert, but to different characters. That’s a worse problem than the numbering, because at least I can look at the numbering and know it’s wrong. I would keep the whole 400+ page document open until I’m done editing, but as sure as I try that either (a) the computer will crash or (b) I will have to turn it off for some other reason and when I reopen the document it will be screwed up again. \*Of the many, many, many such numbered lists in this document, about half are wrong. This means that half are right. However, it being Word, I can’t go into the document and figure out what’s working correctly on the ones that are, and naturally I’m afraid to mess around with them on peril of them _all_ going wrong. \*\*I have never, ever done VBA before. While the site provides complete code it does not really tell me how to apply it, or maybe it’s wrong. First it gives a macro to restart numbering, then it says, “This method can be used in combination with applying numbering using styles. For [new line] Sub ListNumber ()… And from there it goes into another macro. WFT? ---
**Author:** ![Number](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/number/32/242_2.png) [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2005, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-msweird-numbering-question-long/285222/2 "2005-01-17T19:32:33Z")
> [@Hilarity N. Suze](#): > > (1) Is there a user forum for Word, similar to Word Perfect Universe? Microsoft hosts a number of newsgroups on **[news.microsoft.com](http://news.microsoft.com)**. It sounds like **microsoft.public.word.numbering** would be the best place for this question. I don’t have any experience with this particular issue, but I would try dividing the document into several smaller ones. See if you can edit it successfully, then recombine the pieces when you’re done. ---
**Author:** ![cj\_finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@cj\_finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cj_finn)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2005, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-msweird-numbering-question-long/285222/3 "2005-01-18T00:39:19Z")
[http://www.woodyswatch.com/office/index.asp](http://www.woodyswatch.com/office/index.asp) these guys have a great newsletter and the answers I’ve had from the regulars on their message board have been spot on. cj