Merged Microsoft document causes bullets to restart numbering in random places

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Carol H - 19 Jul 2005 16:22 GMT

We recently conducted a very large Microsoft Word merge document. When we
created the initial doument, we created a bulleted list of numbered questions
(1-60) which incorporates variable data into the questionnaire from an Excel
database. When our print shop completed the merge and printed the document,
we had thousands of questionnaires that had questions 1-21, 1-29, and 1-10.
Can anyone tell me what caused the numbering to restart in these random
locations and how we can avoid this problem in the future?

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Doug Robbins - 19 Jul 2005 19:12 GMT

Hard to tell what caused it without seeing the document, but a sure way to
avoid it is to convert all the numbers to text. That can be done using VBA

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> We recently conducted a very large Microsoft Word merge document. When we
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> Can anyone tell me what caused the numbering to restart in these random
> locations and how we can avoid this problem in the future?

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