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Hi, Char,

I add one no-break space (Ctrl+Shft+spacebar) after the formatting in the Enter formatting for number box, and I specify Space in the Follow number with dropdown. You can add more no-break spaces or even em or en spaces. Since we can’t access the symbol dialog from the numbering dialog, the em and en spaces will have to be in the clipboard or have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.

Word duplicates the content and setting of header/footers of the same—type first page to first page, main to main, different odd to different odd, and such. Your page 4 is the first time the main header has appeared in your document. Insert a page break anywhere in page 1 (which is also section 1) and in the header of the new second page, you’ll see the main header, which Word labels “Header – Section 1 and well as the reason for the different first page, which is the different footer. The different footer content must have been deleted in later main section footers because it does not appear on page 4 (section 3, p 2).

Use the set for all levels feature in the multilevel list or list style dialog where you can set a value for additional indent for each level. You can set the position for the tab that follows the number on the right side of the dialog. To fix the spacing in the TOC, add the same tab setting to the appropriate TOC paragraph style settings.

Because you may still have to struggle to get consistent spacing when the numbers become two or more digits (1.22.1.5.177, say), I follow the number with a space (no tab).

What page number appears on the page where your first heading occurs? And, if it says “2”, how did you get it to show that number? If you used a calculated page field, that’s the problem. The TOC does not recognize calculated page numbers. It does recognize formatted page numbers. To do that: with the cursor in the first section of the main part of your document (where the first heading is), go to Format page numbers and set the start at value to you preference.

In the past, Office did not overwrite the old normal.dot(m) when upgrading. It renamed it, and then created a new one for the latest version. Go to the AppData (or application data, depending on the operating system)/Microsoft/templates along your user path and look for the renamed normal.dotm. If you see several, check the modified dates for one that is near the date of your upgrade.

For me the templates location is here:
C:Users[username]AppDataRoamingMicrosoftTemplates

So far for me today, as long as the new document is empty, when I press Ctrl+a (to select everything, including the final paragraph mark), margins and header/footer also get pasted into the new document. If there’s even a single character added to the document, only the text gets pasted. What I describe is what happens manually. Perhaps VBA could somehow insure that page properties from the template (which in this case is only a source document for the copy) also get copied/applied.

I’m still not sure what you mean by page setup. Do you need to capture the margins, headers & footers, and such? Or just the layout of the text and other elements within margins?

I did nothing more than turn on format restriction in a new empty document. These icons on the Table> Layout tab became grey: Properties, Merge cells, Cell size height and width, all alignment icons, and Repeat header rows. My guess is that this, like the restriction of other direct formatting, is by design.

But I am able to drag cell borders to resize tables. Can you do that? Or are you asking if there’s a workaround?

Thanks for that. It’s probably not the only thing I didn’t notice about W2013. But as an old Word Perfect user, I still, after all these years, want Word to open where I left it (which may not be at the last edit).

The save your place is a feature of the reading mode. You know, so it can mimic an ereader. But they didn’t add it to the editor where it’s needed. Shft+F5 is worthless to me. I use the Editorium macros to mark and find the editing place.

The only thing that’s significantly different in that dialog is the neat new way we can set number positions (aka paragraph indents). The part about inserting all the number levels you want is the same as before. But it is tons easier to use a built-in list

And getting old has nothing to do with it. I’m probably older than you.

Cheers

As soon as I get to my third level of numbering, I lose the sequence; what should be A.1.1 is A.1. If I include the numbering from level 2 and not level 1, I get 1.1, no “A.”

If you want A.1.1 to show up in the text, you must have the number fields for levels 6, 7, and 8 in the enter formatting for number box. They must be entered from the Include number from.

Do you lose the sequence in the numbering dialog as well as in the document? If the sequence is correct in the dialog but wrong in the document then conflict between lists could be the problem. As I understand from your last post, you have one multilevel list that links to headings 1 to 9, but you also want to link headings 7 to 9 to another list. A style can only be linked to one list at a time within a document. The levels in last-applied list are the ones that get linked to the paragraph style, with the number level’s settings incorporated into the style’s settings. I’ve not tried to do that so I don’t know if an attempt would result in what you are seeing.

It sounds like you have not included all the previous level numbers needed at each level. You mention telling “it to use the numbering from level 1”, but not fro level 2. If that’s the case, there’s no need to replace normal.dotm.

You can redo your lists from scratch following Shauna Kelly’s advice. Because you have several multilevel lists in one template (normal.dotm), using list styles, as Shaunna suggested, may offer you more stability than regular multilevel lists–though stability is probably not the problem here.

If your lists are already list styles or if you just want to fix what you have… In the Define new multilevel list or Modify Style dialog, as appropriate, temporarily set the start at values for levels two, three, and four to 2, 3, and 4. The Enter formatting for number box for level three should look like A.2.3 and the preview for level three should look like A.2.1 Heading 8. If you see A.3, you’ll need to include level number from 2. If you see A.2, you need to add level 3. Once all levels have the right numbers in the right order, change the start at value back to 1 and OK out of the dialog.

Though it may seem odd, try this: Go to Page Layout tab > Columns. Even if it is already selected, click One.

Well, maybe. But the use of Group the way I suggested is not, I don’t believe, how the programmers intended it to be used. If applied to a form with content controls, the only place a user could input anything is in one of the content controls. I think it’s a replacement for protection for forms.

Like many new Word features, this on may be in line for enhancement in future versions. Or if use in places other than forms catches on and enough people suggest changes to MS, maybe they’ll change it.