Scientology is a fine religion.

Of course, I can't attest to the authenticity of the above.

Scientology is a fine religion.

Now I'm tempted to fill out that form for my cat....

there should be some radio buttons that determine whether the numbered list starts fresh, or continues the last numbered list.

Yeah, those are grayed out, and nothing I do makes them reappear.

Try doing a "Save As" and then trying numering again.

Damn. Still no luck.

See, now, this is why I never use automatic numbering. I'd rather just type the damn numbers and proof them to make sure I got them right.

Unfortunately, I inherited documents with a bunch, nay, a ton, of customized styles.

Is there a way that I can break my manuscript up into individual docs (I can do this manually, of course) and then have word set them into chapters? Does this make sense?

It sounds like you're talking about the Word master document function, which is notoriously insane, I'm afraid to say.

Yep. Word looks at the customization, laughs, and starts it with 6.

Have you tried removing the formatting from the previous list, putting a few hard returns between the lists, then reapplying the numbered list function to each?

then reapplying the numbered list function to each?

The problem, as far as I can tell, isn't with the numbered list function per se, it's with the style. And if I poke it the wrong way, Word punishes me by fucking up the style, and consequently renumbering or moving every single other numbered list in the document.

Also, sometimes it inserts new tabs into the style, or it "forgets" what the indents are set at.

I've pulled the relevant section into a new document, in the hopes that I can reinsert it at some point.

On the Star Wars TV series:

merauder writes to tell us BBC News is reporting that the new Star Wars TV series is set to run at least 100 episodes. From the article: "The series will be set between episodes three and four of the film saga. It would cover the 20 years in the life of Luke Skywalker growing up that remains a mystery to most film-goers. McCallum said there would be 'a whole bunch of new characters' and the series would be 'much more dramatic and darker.'"

Who the hell gives a fuck what Luke was doing when he was growing up? He was pretty much just farming and bullseyeing womprats.

Maybe they could make it interesting if Luke went to Hogwarts....

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Who the hell gives a fuck what Luke was doing when he was growing up? He was pretty much just farming and bullseyeing womprats.

Exactly my thought, tommyrot. It's been pretty firmly established that he drained water condensers and shot space rodents, WE DON'T NEED 100 EPISODES OF THAT, THANK YOU.

Maybe it will be sort of a Skywalker's Creek project. Well desert, not creek, but you know what I mean.

I would rather see the Adventures of Han Solo, thankyouverymuch.

Oh, I know - Luke could learn how to ride sandworms....