OT: autonumbering in Word

[Stuart Rogers]

Jon Harvey wrote:
> Hi Lin,
> 
> The great realization I had about Word is that the autonumbering feature
> is NOT an attribute of the paragraph style like it is in FrameMaker.
> Instead, think of the paragraph styles as being attributes of the
> autonumbering feature. In turn, think of the autonumbering as an
> attribute of the overall documentation design. When Adobe and Microsoft
> designed their autonumbering features, they thought about it in two
> entirely different ways.

Actually, I think Microsoft thought about it in 17 different ways, all 
by itself. For a good laugh, read the entire document at 
http://tinyurl.com/5qo8d ("Word's Numbering Explained" by John McGhie, a 
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional).

Regrettably, Jon, it sounds from McGhie's explanation that even your 
exhaustively careful preparation of numbering will not immunize you from 
all risks of numbering disaster. Apparently all you have to do is copy 
some numbered (or just bulleted!) content from another document and 
paste it into yours...

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