WD2000: Multilevel List Renumbers When Viewed or Saved as Web Page

ID: Q220498

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Word 2000

SYMPTOMS

When you create a document that contains a multilevel list that is three or more levels deep, the numbering re-starts at 1 when you view or save your document as a Web page.

For example, if the numbering scheme appears as follows:


1. Level One
   a. Level Two
      i. Level Three
2. Level One
3.  Level One

when viewed by selecting Web Page Preview on the File menu, the numbering appears as follows:


1. Level One
   a. Level Two
      i. Level Three
1. Level One
2. Level One

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, you must manually edit the HTML code for the list as follows:

In Word, save your document as a Web page. On the File menu, click Save as Web Page.

On the File menu, click Close to close the Web page.

In Microsoft Internet Explorer, open the Web page you created in step 1.

On the View menu, click Source.

Search for the following line of HTML code:


<ol style='margin-top:0in' start=1 type=1>

Scroll to find the next occurrence of this line.

In the second occurrence, change start=1 to start=2 so that the second occurrence appears as follows:
```
<ol style='margin-top:0in' start=2 type=1> 
```

Save your changes and then close the HTML source viewer.

NOTE: You must make these changes from within Internet Explorer or from within an HTML editor other than Word. When you save changes after editing HTML code from within Word, the HTML code recalculates based on the the document contents. When you edit the HTML code in Word, although you make the changes suggested in this workaround, the changes revert back to start=1 after saving.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

Additional query words: outline begin start


Keywords          : kbdta wd2000 
Version           : WINDOWS:2000
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbbug

Last Reviewed: May 28, 1999