Ctrl-Q did the trick perfectly -- thanks Margaret!

-----Original Message-----
Hi Michael

Given that reapplying Heading 2 works, the style
numbering may be correct -
sounds like the problem is that the numbering is direct
formatting (Word
probably did this to you when you copied.) So before you
get into the deeper
mysteries, you might try a Ctrl-Q on your headings (reset
to style).

If you can't Ctrl-Q on the entire document without losing
other formatting
you want, you can reapply styles using search and replace
or by using the
Styles and Formatting Pane (with Tools Options
Edit 'Keep track of
formatting' on) to select instances.

But if you are still having problems, restoring the
numbering following
Shauna Kelly's instructions is the way to go.

--
Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP
Syntagma partnership site: http://www.syntagma.co.uk
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word


"michael s." wrote
in message
...
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...?



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