Hi Michael,

In setting up your styles, did you follow the directions at: How to create
numbered headings or outline numbering in your Word document
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numb...umbering.html?

If you need more, this is based on ...

Word's Numbering Explained
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Number...gExplained.htm

Additional information you may find useful or need is at:

How to Create a Template, Part II
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Custom...platePart2.htm

Legal Numbering
http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/numbering.htm

Seven Laws of Outline Numbering
http://www.microsystems.com/fra_seve...enumbering.htm

The following are some discussions on the Microsoft newsgroups on numbering:
Nightmare on ListNumbering Street URL:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&th=9e790fa7ed2886b3,18&i c=1
The Joy of Lists URL:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&th=811287ebce8fc203,15&i c=1
Relinking ListTemplates URL:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&th=2350746054c838e,12&ic =1
Outline numbering: restart doesn't restart URL:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&ic=1&th=2168093ed1c9eaed m#p
Format Doesn't "Hold" URL:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&ic=1&th=3a351382011420bf #p
(above list compiled by Dave Rado, Word MVP)

ListNumbering Street Revisited URL:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&safe=off&th=57df77857e4993ce

See the latest numbering discussion I've seen, especially post #4 which
contains Dave Rado's concise instructions for setting up heading numbering.
URL:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&ic=1&th=bce07d7714769f5c

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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"michael s." wrote in message
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I have a portion of a document that uses outline numbering
like so:
7.1 xxx
7.1.1 xxx
7.1.1.1 xxxx
7.1.1.2 xxxx
7.1.2 xxx
7.2 xxx
7.2.1 xxx
etc.

Numbering is style-based, so "7.1" is a "Heading 2",
"7.1.2" is a "Heading 3", and so forth. I copied this
block of text to a new document, added a "Heading 1" on
top (which has a value of "1.0"), did a "select all",
pressed F9 to update and... nothing happened. I expected
the 7.1 to change to 1.1, etc. If I re-apply Heading 2 to
the line containing 7.1, then it does change to 1.1, but I
do not have any desire to do that to every line in my
document. How does one tell the document to renumber
automatically...?