(I almost think that any general question about MSWord ought to by default be placed in the Pit . . . just because.
Okay. So I’ve got a 400+ page document, and the author of this masterpiece used an outline form about half the time which I changed, mostly, to a numbered list (although sometimes to a bulleted list).
So I closed the file on Friday, thought nothing about it, came back to edit it on Monday and, behold! The numbers are now CUMULATIVE.
Yes, it starts with item 1 in chapter 1, and . . . keeps that same count going throughout most of the document. (Oddly, in some places, it DOES revert back to starting with item #1, and it goes on like that for a bit, and then–back to item 4506, or whatever the . . . it is.
Now I can go through here and check bullets/numbering > restart about four hundred times, hoping I haven’t missed any, but (a) what’s to assure that next time I open this damn file they won’t be numbered consecutively throughout again, and (xx) that is really a lot of work.
I would just move the whole damned thing to Word Perfect except there are also about 1900 footnotes and they don’t convert well.
If anyone has any great ideas, I’m open. (I already had the one about shooting the computer.)