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Numbering and bullets in Word docs keep disappearing
When working as a team on Word files within SharePoint, I constantly have problems with things like heading numbering disappearing (or changing from numbers to bullets), bullets going missing or bull...
Yes indeed; and as discussed elsewhere in this thread, the failure of Word to permit a stable template in the SharePoint environment, to me, undercuts the value of the SharePoint environment entirely. This thread was opened in March of 2021. That means this has been an issue for more than 4 years. Does anyone have a better way to communicate with Microsoft other than just hopelessly submitting the same requests through the Feedback Hub? Is there any hope that this catastrophic error will ever be fixed?
I doubt it will ever be fixed: there are bugs that have persisted in Word for decades. I assume the code is too old and the engineers don't want to fiddle with it.