microsoft.public.word.numbering

Automatic numbering in Microsoft Word — the support group.

Word’s automatic numbering was famous enough for going wrong that it sustained its own newsgroup: list restarts, outline numbering that would not hold, styles fighting direct formatting. The Word MVPs answered here, and their canonical workarounds circulated for a decade.

Academic mailing lists cited threads from this group when their members fought Word over dissertations — the LINGUIST List archive still links one, which keeps this address alive.