Numbering and bullets in Word docs keep disappearing

nikkipike - out of curiosity, since making this change (assigning formatting directly to the numbering scheme in the list style), have you noticed that when you save as pdf (assuming you ever do that), the numbering converts to a bitmap image in the pdf, which in turn, gets a downsampled/compressed/blurry appearance? Just the number, not the whole heading. I have font formatting on both the heading styles and the numbering scheme and one or the other seems to be causing this problem for me. I can identify when this is going to happen by clicking in the header, and that will cause the numbering on affected headings to display somewhat transparent. Then I just go to that heading level and do the Ctrl+spacebar trick and it fixes the issue. I can't figure out if this issue is from some issue with the style linked to that level, or with the formatting applied to the numbering itself (but I suspect the latter, given that only the number is affected). I think I initially set mine up this way in an attempt to address the same problem you and Thetravis12 are describing, but eventually decided to just go through, locate all of the random italic markers, highlighted, and changed those italicized paragraph markers to "Normal" style. Have not had the italic numbering issue since, but seem to have this new issue with pdf-ing to bitmap images.