WD97: Style Changes When Numbering Applied to Based On Style

• Microsoft Word 97 for Windows

SYMPTOMS

When you create a new style based on an existing style and then define the existing (based on) style to include numbering, the new style will also be defined to include numbering.

NOTE: Numbering includes Bulleted, Numbered and Outline Numbered.

CAUSE

This behavior is by design and is different from previous versions of Word. Any custom style will inherit numbering that is applied to the style it is based on.

WORKAROUND

Do not apply numbering to the existing style. Instead, apply numbering to the new style.

MORE INFORMATION

In previous versions of Word, if you create a new style, for example MyStyle, and base it on the built-in Heading 1 style, it takes on the Heading 1 style attributes. If you then define Heading 1 to have heading numbering, Heading 1 will have the heading numbering attribute applied to it, but MyStyle will not.

In Word 97 for Windows, when you define the Heading 1 style to have heading numbering, both Heading 1 and MyStyle would have the heading number attribute applied to it.

For more information about creating a new style, click Contents And Index on the Help menu, click the Index tab in Help Topics: Microsoft Word, type the following text

   styles, creating

REFERENCES

For more information about working with numbering, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE ID: Q157138
   TITLE     : WD97: Outline Numbering Is Not Reapplied

   ARTICLE-ID: Q157834
   TITLE     : WD97: Switching Between Bullets and Numbers Removes Indents

   ARTICLE ID: Q159943
   TITLE     : WD97: General Information About Bullets and Numbering

   ARTICLE ID: Q164618
   TITLE     : WD97: Conversion of Bullets and Numbering

   numbers, inserting

Keywords          : kbformat kbnumbering word8 word97 kbualink97 kbusage
Version           : 97
Platform          : WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbprb
Solution Type     : kbworkaround