List Number "corruption" in a Master Document

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JulieB - 06 Mar 2004 22:34 GMT

I am working with 14 sub-documents in using a Master
Document.

I use Numbered lists in various sub-documents which are
reset to 1 each time.

However, after saving and closing the file(s), the numbers
seem to forget the resets entirely or in part. It looks
like a corruption to me -- and I know Word98 had a patch
that fixed this problem.

Can anyone tell me where to find a patch for Word 2002
running on Home Edition XP? Or give me another fix to this
problem?

Thank you!

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Graham Mayor - 07 Mar 2004 04:45 GMT

Master documents are prone to corruption. The function simply doesn't work
well -
See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/WhyMasterDocsCorrupt.htm

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Susan Baker - 07 Mar 2004 18:03 GMT

Julie,

the good new... your document probably isn't corrupt.... the bad news is
that this simply is a bug.

this article
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;292073
implies that there is a workaround, but what it isn't clear about is that
the workaround doesn't stick..you have to redo it everytime you open the
doc.

Susan

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Margaret Aldis - 09 Mar 2004 11:40 GMT

As Graham says, Master Documents come with a severe heath warning, but if
you are otherwise insuring yourself against disaster and just need to solve
this restarting issue the answer is probably to use a LISTNUM field to reset
the numbering, instead of the restart numbering command. (This workaround
*is* permanent - and restarting using a restart command is always prone to
losing the restarts, even outside of the master doc problem.)

See http://www.syntagma.demon.co.uk/FAQs/ListRestartByLISTNUM.htm

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