Getting rid of numbers, sort of...

Back when I helped manage a translation shop, one of the Prime Directives (there were several) issued to translators was to not use Microsoft Word's auto-numbering feature, as it generally created more problems than it solved. The only fly in that ointment had to do with how so many Russian source documents did use the feature (even if it required the Russian originator of the document to do unspeakable things with formats and options to make the end result look right).

I still am averse to the use of auto-numbering (which includes auto-alphabetization), so I was tickled to discover, some time ago, the following one-line macro:

Sub ConvertNumToText()
'
ActiveDocument.ConvertNumbersToText
End Sub

The biggest problem I had implementing the macro had to do with, basically, nothing much happening as a result of running it, except that now what used to be autonumbers, etc. are now fully editable.

Restoration of my lost macros proceeds, and as is (unfortunately) usually the case when I've had to go back and reconstruct code, I'm coming up with better and more robust code this second time around.

Cheers...