The steps to getting there can be tricky. (It has been bad since at least Word 97.) If numbering is attached to styles as shown in Microsoft is aware of this and has not fixed it, apparently feeling that most users Word will create a new empty paragraph: at this instant it has no formatting properties at all contained in the.
#MS WORD ON MAC DOES NOT PROPERLY FORMAT PARAGAPHS FOR MAC#
What is there is good enough for most users doing simple documents it is not good enough for complex documents or those that have to be edited very much. Paragraph styles not working properly I use Word paragraph styles regularly (Office 365 for Mac 2016), and have included in many paragraph style definitions the style for the following paragraph, which saves keystrokes or clicks. Good, stable, multi-level numbering has never been the default See Doug's response about sending a blank sample. Is there a way to reset the headings styles and numberings to default,Īnd I'll try that out and see if that fixes it? The behavior I described as "expected" should be the default - I recall that from old job where one of my roles was to manage hundreds of docs with this same format. I appreciate the commitment to helping, but unfortunately, it's a work document and I can't share it externally. I've followed the guides below among other blog posts but to no effect. When I look in Outline view, everything is in the correct order, and the ToC updates correctly otherwise (the section numbers are wrong there too). Select a paragraph with the correct formatting -> Format -> Make Formatting Default -> highlight a non-indented paragraph -> Convert -> Documents -> Convert -> Text to Default Formatting. The second-level numbering is all continuing from the very first Heading 2 item in the document, and the first-level numbering is stuck on 1 instead of matching the preceding Heading 1 numbering. Select a paragraph with the correct formatting -> Format -> Copy Formatting -> highlight a non-indented paragraph -> Paste Formatting. Headings are styled using the built-in paragraph styles. This will ensure that the text box remains anchored to the relevant paragraph. Then choose Shape Format>Position>More Layout Options and check the box beside Lock anchor. If necessary, click on the anchor and drag it to the correct paragraph. However, the multilevel list numbering is not working as expected. The anchor should automatically attach to the nearest paragraph. I have a document that I expect to have headings as such: