Hello Jackie

Succintly put -- that really *is* the problem!

It might be interesting to know what kind of documents these are, and
what triggered the decision to use the same style for (obviously)
different content. That, in itself, is a bad choice IMHO.

But if you want to stick with that, you have to use TC-fields and tell
your TOC-fields to use the information in your TC fields instead of
deriving the table of contents directly from your styles.

All in all, this sounds like _a lot_ more work than getting your styles
right in the first place (I don't even want to know how you had to tread
Word in order to get the desired numbering).

2cents
Robert

Should the numbered paragraphs and the headings be numbered separately?
In that case, it would certainly be a good idea to use different styles
for them.

Alternatively, if you feel you must use the same style for headings and
body text paragraphs, you'll have to use TC fields to add items to a
TOC.

To get control over numbering in such a case, I think you would be
better off removing the numbering from the style and use Seq fields to
apply it.

Seq fields give you full control over numbering. Each sequence is a
separate single-level list; you create additional sequences by giving it
a different name from an existing one. You can also restart numbering as
desired (within a sequence), either explicitly or after a specified
heading level.

The drawback is that Seq fields do not update automatically. You have to
select the document and press F9 for a manual update. Alternatively,
print or print preview, which should trigger an update of Seq fields
(this definitely happens if you select the "Update fields" option on the
Print tab of Tools>Options).

The syntax of a Seq field is: { SEQ sequencename }. Note that you add
the braces by pressing Ctrl+F9; then type the code, specifying something
useful for sequencename. To create restarts and format numbers, add
switches. For more, see Word help.