Hi, Paul

Strikes me that there's good news and bad news.

The good news is that if you carefully follow the instructions on
Shauna's website and others posted here by Suzanne and Margaret, your
appendix numbering will come out perfectly.  In other words, what you
need is quite doable, you just haven't clicked the right combination
yet to open the safe.

The bad news is that it's extremely difficult to follow your problems
and see what you're not doing right (for me, at least).  What you're
trying to do with "dummy sections," for example, completely throws me.

So let me point out a few fundamentals here to support what Shauna,
Suzanne and Margaret have already told you - back to basics, so to
speak.  Maybe they'll help, maybe they won't.

* First, in addition to Shauna's website on appendix numbering, also
check out Andrew Gabb's "Using Word 97 for Complex Documents" at

    http://agabb@tpgi.com.au/

It covers in great detail the problems you're having.

* Also see Jonathan West's article "Distributing Macros to other
users" on the MVP site at

    http://word.mvps.org/faqs/macrosvba/DistributeMacros.htm

It covers what Margaret was telling you about setting up copies of
templates on the local C:\ drive with a login script.

* It's slightly easier to use the built-in Heading styles 6-9 for
appendix numbering than to create a separate set of outline-numbered
styles linked to its own list template.  However, it's not really
*that much* easier.  Andrew Gabb's article explains how you can get
away with doing pagination and TOC references for appendices without
the built-in Heading styles.

* Sections and "dummy sections" are irrelevant to the appendix
numbering.  If Heading 6 is your first level appendix numbering style,
it's the Heading 6 that determines the number, not the section.  You
should put a next page section break before each appendix, of course,
but that's not what governs the numbering.

* When you create Headings 7 - 9, it's like creating Headings 2 - 4,
where the first, second, and third numbers are repeats of the last
previous levels.  To create a Heading 2, for example, that reads A.1,
you would use the A in previous level 1, then a 1,2,3 number style for
Heading 2.

Ditto for Headings 7 - 9.  For Heading 7, you use the A in previous
level 6, then a 1,2,3 numbering style for Headings 7, etc., etc.

* Your Heading styles - or your own outline-numbered styles, if you
create them instead - must all be properly linked to a list template
and edited with your cursor on a level 1 paragraph, as stressed by
Shauna.  Unless each and every one of these outline-numbered styles is
properly linked to the same list template, you have broken numbering.
There shouldn't be any missing links between the first and last levels
you are using.

* In the bottom box of the Customize Outline Numbered List (Listnum
field list name) it helps to type in a name for future use with
LISTNUM fields or with VBA code.  Optional, but why not?  It's free.

* For your table(s) of contents, it makes good sense to generate one
TOC for the main body of the document and another for the appendices.
For the main body TOC, if there were two levels of numbering to be
included you could use:

    { TOC \h \t "Heading 1,1,Heading2,2" }

For the separate appendix TOC, you could get four levels of appendix
numbering like so:

    { TOC \h \t "Heading 6,1,Heading 7,2,Heading 8,3,Heading 9,4" }

If you absolutely had to put both TOCs together it could be done like
this:

    { TOC \h \t "Heading 1,1,Heading 1,2,Heading 6,1,Heading
7,2,Heading 8,3,Heading 9,4" }

To capture field entries as well, if there are any, just add \f
somewhere in the field:

    { TOC \h \f \t "Heading 1,1,Heading2,2" }

Hope you'll find some little detail here that you may have overlooked
and everything'll snap into place.  - Bruce