Re: Perfect fidelity
You can change the format of a numbered list quite easily. Just don't use the UI because it doesn't change the format. It generates a new numbered list format and then applies it to the bit of the list you had selected.
If you change the format using the API, it works fine.
This is not a defence of MS Word, it's a description of how it actually works.
It works in an amazingly stupid way; the result of this is that anywhere that needs numbered lists (ie lawyers) has written their own numbered list UI and hidden the existing one, with the custom numbered list UI plugging directly into the API and working properly - within a limited set of possible numbered list formats, ie the corporate style sheet.
Yes, I did work on one of those custom numbered list systems in the 2000s, why do you ask?
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