As the result of a directory type mail merge does not insert a Section break
between the data for each record, there is nothing that can be used to
trigger a restart of the numbering.

The only way I could see to get what you want is to use keyed-in numbers for
the 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 rather than using multi-level numbering.

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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

"Millieac" wrote in message
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I created a merge document that has multilevel numbering in it. When I do
a
merge to directory, every record needs to retain that numbering sequence.
However, the merged document does not reset the numbering for every
record,
so instead of having 50 records with format from 1-5 for the merge fields,
I
have a numbering scheme in the final document of 1-250.