RLRC

ISSUE 1:

Fix text styles so that they had the correct formatting settings for legal documents.

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ISSUE 2:

Numbered lists would continue their numbering from the previous list, usually at times when the user didn't want this. The Regional Law Revision Centre wanted a macro where the user could press a button and Microsoft Word would go through the document and restart lists at the top level (e.g. at 1 or a) itself.

SOLUTION:

Whilst changing the formatting settings of text styles is standard practice when creating a template, the second issue - a numbered list continuing from a previous one (e.g. if the preceding list ends at 3, an entirely separate list elsewhere in the document starts at 4) - was more of a challenge.

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The user wanted to use custom text styles to apply the various numbered lists, in whatever order they felt necessary. This required setting up multilevel numbered lists in a way that would enable the macros to search for each style, then either determine for itself that a numbered item should or shouldn't be restarted, or ask the user if they wanted to restart a selected numbered item.