Bruce -

You must first create *paragraph* styles and apply them to sample
text.  Then you place your cursor on the first level style and
*through the style* go to the outline numbering gallery, click the
window that looks closest to the numbering scheme you want, then click
Customize.  That takes you to the Customize Outline Numbered List
dialog where you then *link* each level to one of the styles you've
created.  Unless a style is so linked, it cannot be said to be an
outline-numbered style.

You'll discover that the font for the paragraph number, which is
determined at the top of the Cuztomize Outline Numbered List dialog,
is completely independent of the font in the style itself.  That's one
of the major pains about setting up a numbering scheme:  you have to
go to two different places to make the font the same for both number
and style.

Bottom line:  all *number attributes* and indentation are determined
in the Customize Outline Numbered List dialog, whereas all *text
attributes* and alignment, space before and space after, are
determined in the style itself.

Display nonprinting characters if necessary so that you can see the
paragraph mark (¶)at the end of the paragraph. Select just the paragraph
mark and remove the italic formatting.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)