I'm having serious numbering ISSUES with MS Word (yeah, big surprise, huh?). I have my styles properly set up and I have a complex document I'm working on that has several numbered lists. I have two issues that regularly occur. 1.) I create a third (or fourth or fifth) list and when I try to restart numbering using the Format>Bullets and Numbering menu selection it changes the numbering for the list I am working on, but it makes the list immediately above (list 2 for example) renumber continuing the numbering from list 1. So let's say list 1 is 1,2,3 and list 2 is the same, when I do restart numbering on list 3 so it will also be 1,2,3 - then when I do that, list 2 suddenly renumbers 4,5,6. If it's a short document this doesn't seem to be a problem, but I work on longish documents 20+ pages usually and it gets to be an issue the longer the document gets. 2.) If the first problem doesn't GET me, then I have a different issue. Sometimes when I try to renumber the list, the Restart Numbering button is grayed out and I can't renumber at all. I've read all of the literature about how this setting overrides that setting and all of that mumbo-jumbo, but I don't understand how all that works and there has to be a simpler solution. I've been working around it by just CREATING new styles everytime I need a new numbered list, but that's just not good practice and I shouldn't have to do that.Have you tried reinstalling Word?

Alan <>< No, but I've experienced this before on different machines, I don't think it's the application.Try numbering in a table, without DISPLAYED borders. Highlight the rows to insert the list, then the 2nd, etc. I tried it and it seems to work, and the restart numbering button is active...