And lo on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:08:51 -0000, Tom Austin <taustin> did spake,  
saying:

> Invisible wrote:
>> This probably isn't news to you, but... numbered lists seem to be  
>> spectacularly broken in Word 2003.
>>  I mean, sure, they were always a little quirky in Word 97. But now  
>> I've upgraded to Word 2003, it seems just downright *broken*. I've got  
>> a couple of pages, each one with a numbered list on it. And I  
>> point-blank *cannot* make each such list start counting from 1.
>>  I can make *some* of them count from 1, but then that makes the others  
>> reset to start counting from where it left off. Or, sometimes, makes  
>> them start counting from some seemingly arbitrary number like 138.
>>  What in the name of God...?
>>  Seriously, is this behaviour "normal" for Word now?
>
>
> It is perfectly expected - there's rational behind how it all works.
> It's easy once you figure it out.
> Good luck in doing that ;-)

Talking to an older guy who despairs of every 'getting' computers and  
bemoaning his own stupidity I point out he's not stupid it's just that  
computers tend to use their own rules of logic that he's not familiar  
with. "In Windows to stop the computer press Start" makes sense if you  
consider each action has to be initiated and the Start button is(can be)  
the beginning of all such actions.

Of course it doesn't help when they break their own rules; consider how  
windows open in Excel2k compared to Word2k, or in Andy's case they create  
invisible rules you can't see.

-- 
Phil Cook

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