Numbering Word Online vs. Word desktop app is different

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I use numbering in my word document but in word online you can see different numbering as you can see in attachment. Do you have any idea how to fix it? 

 

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@Miroslav Novák - Did you ever resolve this?  I am running into the same problem with my numbering in Word Online versus what I see in the Desktop App.

Hi @Dan_Waldron, unfortunatelly not. I am using desktop app for sure. 

I've also seen this: in Word itself my numbering was:
1
1.1
1.1.1

On Word Online it looked like:
1
1.1
1.1

The formatting was right but the numbering was out because it ran the numbering on instead of starting a new level.

To write this post I had to go back and check, and interestingly, if I opened the document in Online first it was wrong, but if I opened it in the app and *then* in Online it was correct. Something not right there.

I wish I could completely disable Word Online. I have to set every new Teams library to open in the app and even then links directly to files open straight in the browser. Maddening.