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: Problem with InDesign paragraph numbering I realize this post may not be perfect for this SE forum, but seeing that it's a graphics editor I'm having problems with I'm thinking that maybe the

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I realize this post may not be perfect for this SE forum, but seeing that it's a graphics editor I'm having problems with I'm thinking that maybe the right eyes will get to see it.

I'm having big problems with paragraph numbering in my InDesign document. I got handed the document by a colleague and found that all paragraph numbering was static text, which as you may know will make working with the document while keeping numbering updated very tedious..

So I started creating appropriate paragraph numbering styles and began converting. However, to my despair I see that on some pages the paragraph numbering isn't affected by the chapter numbering. So that the first paragraph in chapter 5 is numbered as paragraph 4.2.8, continuing the numbering from chapter 4....

Here's an illustration of the problem:



Does anyone please have any tips of what I could check to try and remove this error?

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I found that the paragraph numbering got updated to the correct chapter number if I duplicated the paragraph on that same page. Then the duplicate got the 5.2.1 numbering, which I guess will have to suffice, even though I could do without the 2 in the middle...

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